Patrick Knupp

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

Brewer, Michael, Lori Freitag Diachin, Patrick Knupp, Thomas Leurent and Darryl Melander

"The Mesquite Mesh Quality Improvement Toolkit", Proceedings, 12th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.239-250, Sept. 2003
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quality	smoothing
Mesquite	toolkit

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"Increasing the Tau3P abort-time via mesh quality improvement", Proceedings, 12th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.379-390, Sept. 2003
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quality	smoothing
optimization	computational electromagnetics

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"Tetrahedral Element Shape Optimization via the Jacobian Determinant and Condition Number", Proceedings, 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, U.S.A., pp.247-258, October 1999
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improvement	optimization-based smoothing
quality	untangling
smoothing

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"Tetrahedral mesh improvement via optimization of the element condition number", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Vol 53, Num 6, pp.1377 - 1391, February 2002
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element condition number	mesh improvement
mesh quality	mesh smoothing
optimization-based smoothing

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"A Comparison of Inexact Newton and Coordinate Descent Mesh Optimization Techniques", Proceedings, 13th International Meshing Roundtable, Williamsburg, VA, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND #2004-3765C, pp.243-254, September 19-22 2004
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quality	improvement
optimization	smoothing

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"Quality Improvement of Surface Triangulations Using Local Parameterization", Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, The International Society of Grid Generation, pp.609-618, June 2002
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local parameterization	quality
surface triangulation

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"A method for hexahedral mesh shape optimization", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Vol 58, Num 2, pp.319-332, July 2003
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condition number	hexahedral meshing
mesh optimization	mesh quality
mesh smoothing

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"Matrix Norms & The Condition Number: A General Framework to Improve Mesh Quality Via Node-Movement", Proceedings, 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, U.S.A., pp.13-22, October 1999
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mesh optimization	shape measures
condition number	matrix norms
finite element mesh	tetrahedral mesh
hexahedral mesh	mesh untangling

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"Next-Generation Sweep Tool: A Method For Generating All-Hex Meshes On Two-And-One-Half Dimensional Geomtries", Proceedings, 7th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Lab, pp.505-513, October 1998
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hexahedra	sweeping
node location	Cubit

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"Applications of Mesh Smoothing: Copy, Morph, and Sweep on Unstructured Quadrilateral Meshes", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley, Vol 45, pp.37-45, 1999
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hexahedra	smoothing
sweeping	copy
morph	quadrilateral

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"Winslow Smoothing On Two-Dimensional Unstructured Meshes", Proceedings, 7th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Lab, pp.449-457, October 1998
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winslow smoothing	quadrilateral
smoothing	elliptic smoothing

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"Hexahedral Mesh Untangling & Algebraic Mesh Quality Metrics", Proceedings, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.173-183, October 2000
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mesh untangling	untangling
mesh quality	quality
metrics	mesh optimization
optimization	shape measures

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"Achieving finite element mesh quality via optimization of the Jacobian matrix norm and associated quantities. Part II--A framework for volume mesh optimization and the coni", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Vol 48, Num 8, pp.1165 - 1185, July 2000
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condition number	finite element mesh
mesh optimization	smoothing
unstructured grid generation

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"Achieving finite element mesh quality via optimization of the Jacobian matrix norm and associated quantities. Part I--a framework for surface mesh optimization", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Vol 48, Num 3, pp.401 - 420, May 2000
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finite element mesh	mesh optimization
mesh smoothing	unstructured grid generation

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"Optimization-Based Reference-Matrix Rezone Strategies for Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Methods on Unstructured Meshes", Proceedings, 10th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.167-176, October 7-10 2001
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ALE	rezoning
optimization	reference Jacobian
condition number	smoothing

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"Methods for Multisweep Automation", Proceedings, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.77-87, October 2000
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hexahedra	sweeping
multisweep	automation
many-to-many

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