Optimal Triangular Mesh Generation by Coordinate Transformation
Optimal Triangular Mesh Generation by Coordinate Transformation
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DOI:
10.1137/0912040
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1991-05
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E. D'Azevedo
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E. D'Azevedo
This paper presents the motivation for and construction of coordinate transformations that generate optimally efficient meshes for linear interpolation. The coordinate transformations are derived from a result in differential geometry characterizing a “flat” space. The optimality results are demonstrated for some numerical examples. Adaptive meshes produced by PLTMG [R. E. Bank, PLTMG: A Software Package for Solving Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 1990] are included for comparison. The paper concludes that coordinate transformation is a promising strategy for investigation into more complex optimal meshing problems in finite element analysis.