Advancing Front Quadrilateral Meshing Using Triangle Transformations
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چکیده
Quad-morphing is a new technique used for generating quadrilaterals from an existing triangle mesh. Beginning with an initial triangulation, triangles are systematically transformed and combined. An advancing front method is used to determine the order of transformations. An all-quadrilateral mesh containing elements aligned with the area boundaries with few irregular internal nodes can be generated.
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