Volumetric parameterization and trivariate B-spline fitting using harmonic functions

T Martin, E Cohen, M Kirby - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
We present a methodology based on discrete volumetric harmonic functions to parameterize
a volumetric model in a way that it can be used to fit a single trivariate B-spline to data so …

Foldover-free maps in 50 lines of code

V Garanzha, I Kaporin, L Kudryavtseva… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Mapping a triangulated surface to 2D space (or a tetrahedral mesh to 3D space) is an
important problem in geometry processing. In computational physics, untangling plays an …

Hexahedral mesh generation constraints

JF Shepherd, CR Johnson - Engineering with Computers, 2008 - Springer
For finite element analyses within highly elastic and plastic structural domains, hexahedral
meshes have historically offered some benefits over tetrahedral finite element meshes in …

Robust untangling of curvilinear meshes

T Toulorge, C Geuzaine, JF Remacle… - Journal of Computational …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a technique that allows to untangle high-order/curvilinear meshes. The
technique makes use of unconstrained optimization where element Jacobians are …

Simultaneous untangling and smoothing of tetrahedral meshes

JM Escobar, E Rodrıguez, R Montenegro… - Computer Methods in …, 2003 - Elsevier
The quality improvement in mesh optimisation techniques that preserve its connectivity are
obtained by an iterative process in which each node of the mesh is moved to a new position …

[PDF][PDF] The Mesquite Mesh Quality Improvement Toolkit.

ML Brewer, LF Diachin, PM Knupp, T Leurent… - IMR, 2003 - oss.jishulink.com
We describe the design goals and architecture of the Mesquite toolkit, a stand-alone library
consisting of state-of-theart algorithms for mesh quality improvement. The primary …

Patient specific finite element model of the face soft tissues for computer-assisted maxillofacial surgery

M Chabanas, V Luboz, Y Payan - Medical image analysis, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the prediction of face soft tissue deformations resulting from bone
repositioning in maxillofacial surgery. A generic 3D Finite Element model of the face soft …

A survey of indicators for mesh quality assessment

T Sorgente, S Biasotti, G Manzini… - Computer graphics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the joint efforts made by the geometry processing and the numerical analysis
communities in the last decades to define and measure the concept of “mesh quality” …

Tetrahedral mesh improvement via optimization of the element condition number

LA Freitag, PM Knupp - International Journal for Numerical …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new shape measure for tetrahedral elements that is optimal in that it gives the
distance of a tetrahedron from the set of inverted elements. This measure is constructed from …

Surface smoothing and quality improvement of quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes with geometric flow

Y Zhang, C Bajaj, G Xu - Communications in Numerical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes an approach to smooth the surface and improve the quality of
quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes with feature preserved using geometric flow. For …