Hexahedral Mesh Matching: Converting non-conforming hexahedral-to-hexahedral interfaces into conforming interfaces

DOI10.1002/nme.2800zbMath1188.74095OpenAlexW1987281982MaRDI QIDQ3567331

Kenji Shimada, Jason F. Shepherd, M. L. Staten, Franck Ledoux

Publication date: 11 June 2010

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.2800

zbMATH Keywords

mesh generationfinite element analysishexahedrapillowingnon-conforming interfacesmulti-point constraint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74S99)

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Uses Software

• pCAMAL
• CUBIT

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