The Development and Evaluation of the knife Finite Element

This thesis presents the development and evaluation of the knife finite element which is a degenerate case of a hexahedral element. The knife connectivity is an artifact of automatic all-hexahedral mesh generators. Currently, knives are propagated to the surface of the mesh for removal. However sinc...

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Main Author: Clark, Brett W.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 1996
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3456
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4455&context=etd