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A new front updating solution applied to some engineering problems

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An automatic mesh generation dealing with domains of an arbitrary shape could be realized by an advancing front method. The mesh generator based on this method creates triangle elements inside a domain starting with the polygonal (polyhedral in 3D) discretisation of its border. In this paper an original algorithm for the front updating procedures as a part of the mesh generator is presented. The proposed algorithm provides an efficient mesh generation procedure. It has been verified on the various domains with complex geometry and with nonuniform distribution of edge nodes such as the discretisation of the switched reluctance motor and power cable configuration, respectively. The related finite element calculations are carried out.

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Kovač, N., Gotovac, S. & Poljak, D. A new front updating solution applied to some engineering problems. ARCO 9, 43–75 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736232

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