Title
Adaptive and Quality Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshing from Volumetric Imaging Data
Abstract
This paper describes an algorithm to extract adaptive and quality quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes directly from volumetric imaging data. First, a bottom-up surface topology preserving octree-based algorithm is applied to select a starting octree level. Then the dual contouring method is used to extract a preliminary uniform quad/hex mesh, which is decomposed into finer quads/hexes adaptively without introducing any hanging nodes. The positions of all boundary vertices are recalculated to approximate the boundary surface more accurately. Mesh adaptivity can be controlled by a feature sensitive error function, the regions that users are interested in, or finite element calculation results. Finally, the relaxation based technique is deployed to improve mesh quality. Several demonstration examples are provided from a wide variety of application domains. Some extracted meshes have been extensively used in finite element simulations.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
IMR
quality mesh.,mesh adaptivity,quadrilateral/hexahedral mesh,topology preservation
Field
DocType
Citations 
Hexahedron,Engineering drawing,Computer science,Image-based meshing,Quadrilateral,Mesh generation
Conference
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.44
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongjie Zhang1304.95
Chandrajit L. Bajaj22880306.59