3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Communications In Numerical Methods In Engineering, Wiley, Vol 14, pp.397-407, 1998

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

Universite de Technologie de Compiegne LG2mS-GMS-MNM. BP 20529, 60205 Compiegne Cedex, France

Abstract
An adaptive finite element (FE) method for the solution of three-dimensional elasto-static problems is described. The computational domain is represented by an assembly of tetrahedral elements and the mesh adaptation is achieved by a 3D bisection method using an error estimator procedure coupled with an automatic 3D mesh generator. The performance of the method is demonstrated using a number of examples.