Committee Chair

Hilbert, C. Bruce

Committee Member

Newman, James C., III; Sreenivas, Kidambi; Matthews, Matt

Department

Dept. of Computational Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

A higher order mesh curving method is developed which uses information from the geometry to determine the appropriate curvature of edges in the interior of the mesh. Edges are represented using four point Bézier curves to determine the positions of higher order edge points. Higher order face and volume points are positioned using the basis functions for serendipity face and volume elements. Parameters are defined which allow user specified control over element quality and the propagation of curvature in the mesh. Curved higher order meshes are shown for test cases in both two and three dimensions.

Degree

Ph. D.; A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Date

12-2017

Subject

Numerical grid generation (Numerical analysis); Finite element method

Keyword

Curvilinear meshing; Higher-order meshing; Higher-order finite element method

Document Type

Doctoral dissertations

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

xii; 89 leaves

Language

English

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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