Hexahedral Sheet Extraction

Proceedings, 11th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.147-152, September 15-18 2002

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

11th International Meshing Roundtable
Ithaca, New York, USA
September 15-18, 2002

Michael J. Borden and Steven E. Benzley
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
mborden@byu.edu, seb@et.byu.edu

Jason F. Shepherd
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
jfsheph@sandia.gov

Abstract
This work presents an algorithm for coarsening all-hexahedral meshes while maintaining all-hexahedral connectivity. The dual of a mesh is described and the constraints on hexahedral mesh modification are explained. This paper then describes how mesh coarsening can be performed by using the information contained in the dual.

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