A new element bisection algorithm for unstructured adaptive tetrahedral mesh generation

DOI10.1108/02644409810225779MaRDI QIDQ4241289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. H. V. Topping, John K. Wilson

Publication date 3 April 2000

Published in Engineering Computations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409810225779

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive mesh geneationbisection algorithmerror boundsfinite element methodnumerical examplestetrahedral elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

Review text

A new \(h\)-refinement adaptive mesh generation algorithm is presented. Three-dimensional domains are discretised by a mesh of tetrahedral elements. A posteriori error estimation is carried out by using the Zienkiewicz-Zhu error indicator. Mesh refinement is carried out in the usual way by making use of the error indicator, and the shape quality of the current mesh is enhanced by the iterative application of nodal relaxation plus three topological transformations. Ten-noded linear tetrahedral elements are used, and four examples demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the algorithm.

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