An algorithm to generate quadrilateral or triangular element surface meshes in arbitrary domains with applications to crack propagation

DOI10.1002/NME.1620381603MaRDI QIDQ4859307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David O. Potyondy, P. A. Wawrzynek, A. R. Ingraffea

Publication date 1 February 1996

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.1620381603

zbMATH Keywords

all-quadrilateral element meshall-triangular elementboundary contraction proceduremesh densityquadtree meshrecursive spatial decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Fracture and damage (74R99) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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