Towards an adaptive advancing front method

Proceedings, 6th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.349-360, October 1997

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Eric Seveno
INRIA, Projet Gamma,
Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France.
E-mail: Eric.Seveno@inria.fr

Abstract
This paper presents the main features of an advancing front method designed to mesh arbitrary 3D geometries with tetrahedral elements. A control space is used to govern the element sizes, which proves to be useful in an adaption scheme. Several improvements to the scheme of the standard advancing front method are detailed. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the proposed approach and possible extensions are indicated.

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