Adaptive and Quality Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshing from Volumetric Data.
Adaptive and Quality Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshing from Volumetric Data.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cma.2005.02.016
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发表时间:
2006-02
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Y. Zhang;C. Bajaj
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作者:
Y. Zhang;C. Bajaj
This paper describes an algorithm to extract adaptive and quality quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes directly from volumetric data. First, a bottom-up surface topology preserving octree-based algorithm is applied to select a starting octree level. Then the dual contouring method is used to extract a preliminary uniform quad/hex mesh, which is decomposed into finer quads/hexes adaptively without introducing any hanging nodes. The positions of all boundary vertices are recalculated to approximate the boundary surface more accurately. Mesh adaptivity can be controlled by a feature sensitive error function, the regions that users are interested in, or finite element calculation results. Finally, a relaxation based technique is deployed to improve mesh quality. Several demonstration examples are provided from a wide variety of application domains. Some extracted meshes have been extensively used in finite element simulations.