The seven-triangle longest-side partition of triangles and mesh quality improvement

A new triangle partition, the seven-triangle longest-edge partition, based on the trisection of the edges is presented and the associated mesh quality improvement property, discussed. The seven-triangle longest-edge (7T-LE) partition of a triangle t is obtained by putting two equally spaced points p...

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Autores: Márquez Pérez, Alberto, Moreno González, Auxiliadora, Plaza, Ángel, Suárez, José P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/111846
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/111846
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2008.04.007
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Refinement
Longest-edge based algorithms
Improvement of mesh quality
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Sumario:A new triangle partition, the seven-triangle longest-edge partition, based on the trisection of the edges is presented and the associated mesh quality improvement property, discussed. The seven-triangle longest-edge (7T-LE) partition of a triangle t is obtained by putting two equally spaced points per edge. After cutting off three triangles at the corners, the remaining hexagon is subdivided further by joining each point of the longest-edge of t to the base points of the opposite sub-triangle. Finally, the interior quadrangle is subdivided into two sub-triangles by the shortest diagonal. The self-improvement property of the 7T-LE partition is discussed, delimited and compared to the parallel property of the four-triangle longest-edge (4T-LE) partition. Global refinement strategies, combining longest-edge with self-similar partitions, are proposed, based on the theoretical geometrical properties.