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Kenji Shimada

 Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Web Page: http://www.me.cmu.edu/faculty1/shimada/shimada.html
E-mail: shimada@cmu.edu

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

Dheeravongkit, Arbtip and Kenji Shimada

    "Inverse Pre-Deformation of Finite Element Mesh for Large Deformation Analysis", Proceedings, 13th International Meshing Roundtable, Williamsburg, VA, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND #2004-3765C, pp.81-94, September 19-22 2004
    keywords:
    • large deformation analysis
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    • inverse pre-deformation
    • bubble mesh
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    • evolving meshes
    Abstract
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Inoue, Keisuke, Takayuki Itoh, Atsushi Yamada, Tomotake Furuhata and Kenji Shimada
    "Clustering a Large Number of Faces For 2-Dimensional Mesh Generation", Proceedings, 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, U.S.A., pp.281-292, October 1999
    keywords:
    • clustering
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    • simplification
    • surface meshing
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    • patch-independent
    Abstract
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Inoue, Keisuke, Takayuki Itoh, Atsushi Yamada, Tomotake Furuhata, Kenji Shimada
    "Face clustering of a large-scale CAD model for surface mesh generation", Computer Aided Design, Elsevier, Vol 33, Num 3, pp.251-261, March 2001
    keywords:
    • face clustering
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    • mesh simplification
    • simplification
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    • parameterisation
    • defeaturing
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    • patch-independant meshing
    • surface meshing
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    • geometry management
    Abstract

Itoh, Takayuki, Kenji Shimada, Keisuke Inoue, Atsushi Yamada, Tomotake Furuhata
    "Automated Conversion of 2D Triangular Mesh into Quadrilateral Mesh with Directionality Control", Proceedings, 7th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Lab, pp.77-86, October 1998
    keywords:
    • quadrilateral
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    • directionality
    • bubble
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    • physically-based
    • square packing
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    Abstract
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Quadros, William Roshan, Steven James Owen, Mike Brewer and Kenji Shimada
    "Finite Element Mesh Sizing for Surfaces Using Skeleton", Proceedings, 13th International Meshing Roundtable, Williamsburg, VA, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND #2004-3765C, pp.389-400, September 19-22 2004
    keywords:
    • surface meshing
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    • sizing function
    • skeleton
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    • medial axis transform
    Abstract
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Quadros, William Roshan, Ved Vyas, Mike Brewer, Steven James Owen, Kenji Shimada
    "A Computational Framework For Generating Sizing Function In Assembly Meshing", Proceedings, 14th International Meshing Roundtable, Springer-Verlag, pp.55-72, September 11-14 2005
    keywords:
    • assembly
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    • sizing function
    • skeleton
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    • pre-mesh
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Shimada, Kenji and David C. Gossard
    "Automatic triangular mesh generation of trimmed parametric surfaces for finite element analysis", Computer Aided Geometric Design, Elsevier, Vol 15, pp.199-222, 1998
    keywords:
    • bubble meshing
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    • Delaunay triangulation
    • dynamic simulation
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    • physically based model
    • sphere packing
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    • triangulation
    • Voronoi polygons
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    Abstract

Shimada, Kenji, Atsushi Yamada and Takayuki Itoh
    "Anisotropic Triangular Meshing of Parametric Surfaces via Close Packing of Ellipsoidal Bubbles", Proceedings, 6th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.375-390, October 1997
    keywords:
    • anisotropy
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    • bubble
    • Delaunay
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    • surface
    • triangle
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    Abstract
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Shimada, Kenji, Jia-Huei Liao and Takayuki Itoh
    "Quadrilateral Meshing with Directionality Control through the Packing of Square Cells", Proceedings, 7th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Lab, pp.61-76, October 1998
    keywords:
    • quadrilateral
      		•
    • directionality
    • Voronoi
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    • Delaunay
    • bubble
      		•
    • physically-based
    Abstract
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Shimada, Kenji. Editor
    "The 8th International Meshing Roundtable Special Issue: Advances in Mesh Generation", Computer Aided Design, Elsevier, Vol 33, Num 3, pp.197, March 2001
    keywords:
    • special edition
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    • overview
    • International Meshing Roundtable
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    Abstract

Viswanath, Naveen, Kenji Shimada, Takayuki Itoh
    "Quadrilateral Meshing with Anisotropy and Directionality Control via Close Packing of Rectangular Cells", Proceedings, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.217-225, October 2000
    keywords:
    • anisotropy
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    • computational geometry
    • quadrilateral
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    • circumcircle test
    • bubble packing
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    • Delaunay
    • quadrilateral packing
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    Abstract
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Yamada, Atsushi, Kenji Shimada and Takayuki Itoh
    "Energy-Minimizing Approach to Meshing Curved Wire-Frame Models", 5th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.179-194, October 1996
    keywords:
    • bubble
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    • energy-minimization
    • sphere packing
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    • triangle
    Abstract
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Yamada, Atsushi, Keisuke Inoue, Takayuki Itoh and Kenji Shimada
    "An Approach for Generating Meshes Similar to A Reference Mesh", Proceedings, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.101-109, October 2000
    keywords:
    • tensor field
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    • quadrilateral
    • mesh copy
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    • copy
    • surface meshing
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    Abstract
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Yamada, Atsushi, Kenji Shimada and Takayuki Itoh
    "Meshing Curved Wire-Frame Models Through Energy Minimization and Packing of Ellipses", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Num 46, pp.1221-1236, 1999
    keywords:
    • bubble
      		•
    • anisotropy
    • surface modeling
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    • wire-frame models
    • quadrilateral
      		•
    • triangle
    • surface meshing
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    Abstract

Yamakawa, Soji and Kenji Shimada
    "Polygon Crawling: Feature-Edge Extraction from a General Polygonal Surface for Mesh Generation", Proceedings, 14th International Meshing Roundtable, Springer-Verlag, pp.257-276, September 11-14 2005
    keywords:
    • feature extraction
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    • faceted geometry
    • polygon crawling
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    Abstract
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Yamakawa, Soji and Kenji Shimada
    "Hexhoop: Modular Templates For Converting A Hex-Dominant Mesh To An All-Hex Mesh", Proceedings, 10th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.235-246, October 7-10 2001
    keywords:
    • mesh conversion
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    • template
    • hexahedra
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    • hex-dominant
    • pyramid
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    • Schneider's open problem
    • hexhoop
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    • geode
    Abstract
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Yamakawa, Soji and Kenji Shimada
    "Increasing the number and volume of hexahedral and prism elements in a hex-dominant mesh by topological transformations", Proceedings, 12th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.403-413, Sept. 2003
    keywords:
    • hex-dominant
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    • topological transformation
    • hexahedra
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    • mixed elements
    • prism element
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Yamakawa, Soji and Kenji Shimada
    "High Quality Anisotropic Tetrahedral Mesh Generation Via Ellipsoidal Bubble Packing", Proceedings, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.263-273, October 2000
    keywords:
    • tetrahedra
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    • bubble packing
    • anisotropy
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    • graded mesh
    • ellipsoid
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    • advancing front
    • physically-based
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    Abstract
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Yamakawa, Soji; Shimada, Kenji
    "Anisotropic tetrahedral meshing via bubble packing and advancing front", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Vol 57, Num 13, pp.1923 - 1942, August 2003
    keywords:
    • advancing front
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    • anisotropy
    • bubble packing
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    • Delaunay
    • local transformation
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    • tetrahedral mesh
    Abstract

Zhou, Tian and Kenji Shimada
    "An Angle-Based Approach to Two-Dimensional Mesh Smoothing", Proceedings, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.373-384, October 2000
    keywords:
    • smoothing
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    • average angle
    • Laplacian
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    • optimization-based
    • triangule
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    • quadrilateral
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