Virtual and smoothed finite elements: a connection and its application to polygonal/polyhedral finite element methods

S Natarajan, SPA Bordas, ET Ooi - International Journal for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We show both theoretically and numerically a connection between the smoothed finite
element method (SFEM) and the virtual element method and use this approach to derive …

Curved optimal delaunay triangulation

L Feng, P Alliez, L Busé, H Delingette… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - inria.hal.science
Meshes with curvilinear elements hold the appealing promise of enhanced geometric
flexibility and higher-order numerical accuracy compared to their commonly-used straight …

Global optimization of optimal Delaunay triangulation with modified whale optimization algorithm

Y Weng, J Cao, Z Chen - Engineering with Computers, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we introduce an innovative approach to generate a high-quality mesh with a
density function in a given domain. Our method involves solving a variational problem that …

Conforming weighted Delaunay triangulations

M Alexa - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Given a set of points together with a set of simplices we show how to compute weights
associated with the points such that the weighted Delaunay triangulation of the point set …

Generalised primal-dual grids for unstructured co-volume schemes

D Engwirda - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
The generation of high-quality staggered unstructured grids is considered, leading to the
development of a new optimisation-based strategy designed to construct weighted 'Regular …

Optimal Voronoi tessellations with Hessian-based anisotropy

M Budninskiy, B Liu, F De Goes, Y Tong… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a variational method to generate cell complexes with local anisotropy
conforming to the Hessian of any given convex function and for any given local mesh …

Harmonic triangulations

M Alexa - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2019 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the notion of harmonic triangulations: a harmonic triangulation simultaneously
minimizes the Dirichlet energy of all piecewise linear functions. By a famous result of Rippa …

Delaunay Mesh Construction and Simplification with Feature Preserving Based on Minimal Volume Destruction

Y Huo, T Wang, H Li, Y Zhang, X Li, B Liu, G Wang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Triangular meshes play critical roles in many applications, such as numerical simulation and
additive manufacturing. However, the triangular meshes transformed from computer-aided …

Alternating size field optimizing and parameterization domain CAD model remeshing

S Wang, B Yang, H Bao, J Huang - Computer Aided Geometric Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Tessellating CAD models into triangular meshes is a long-lasting problem. Size field is
widely used to accommodate varieties of requirements in remeshing, and it is usually …

A FEM/DEM adaptive remeshing strategy for brittle elastic failure initiation and propagation

F Yahya, C Hubert, N Leconte… - International Journal for …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an adaptive remeshing strategy between the finite element method
(FEM) and the discrete element method (DEM). To achieve this strategy, an edge‐to‐edge …