ISSN:
1069-8299
Keywords:
advancing front
;
tetrahedrization
;
inverse-power interpolation
;
triangular Bezier patches
;
Engineering
;
Numerical Methods and Modeling
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Technology
Notes:
The paper deals with the discretization of any given multi-connected volume into a set of tetrahedral elements. A simple but robust tetrahedrization scheme based on a two-stage advancing front technique is presented. The method evolves from the triangulated domain bounding surfaces for which geometry representations are derived from triangular Bezier patches. Tetrahedral elements are then generated which fill the domain volume based on the set of distributed interior nodes. A new and efficient procedure is introduced for the distribution of the mesh interior nodes which uses an inverse-power interpolation technique. The proposed scheme is robust in that it is capable of tetrahedrizing a given arbitrary domain of any degree of irregularity, and allows the distribution of its interior nodes to be specified by the user. Results are presented typical of those which might be encountered in hydrodynamics modelling involving flows with a free surface. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Additional Material:
12 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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