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The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (대한기계학회)
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Quadrilateral Mesh Generation on Trimmed NURBS Surfaces

  • Chae, Soo-Won (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University) ;
  • Kwon, Ki-Youn (Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University)
  • Published : 2001.05.01
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Abstract

An automatic mesh generation scheme with unstructured quadrilateral elements on trimmed NURBS surfaces has been developed. In this paper NURBS surface geometries in the IGES format have been employed to represent geometric models. For unstructured mesh generation with quadrilateral elements, a domain decomposition algorithm employing loop operators has been modified. As for the surface meshing, an indirect 2D approach is proposed in which both quasi-expanded planes and projection planes are employed. Sampled meshes for complex models are presented to demonstrate the robustness of the algorithm.

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