Optimization Tools for Adaptive Surface Meshing

AMD-Vol. 220 Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, ASME, pp.81-88, July 1997

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

Universite de Technologie de Troyes
BP 2060, 10010 Troyes Cedex, France.
Email: Houman.Borouchaki@univ-troyes-fr

presented at
The 1997 Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Summer Meeting
June 29-July 2, 1997
Northwestern University
Evanston Illinois

Abstract
This paper proposes a mesh optimization method based on the unit mesh concept for the adaptive remeshing of a surface. A G1 representation of the surface (the so- called support) is obtained from an initial surface mesh. The meshing or the remeshing of the surfaces consists in optimizing the edge lengths of the initial mesh via a specification metric field.