Approaches to discretization of 3D surfaces.

The presented work deals with the discretization techniques applicable to 3D surfaces that are recognized to be an important issue in the automated generation of high quality meshes in the framework of CAD, CAE and CAM. The work is divided into several parts with respect to different methodologies. The first part provides a global overview of the most common techniques related to the generation and optimization of two-dimensional meshes and to the discretization of 3D surfaces. In the second part, an indirect approach for the triangulation of 3D parametric surfaces is introduced. The third part deals with a direct approach of the discretization of 3D parametric surfaces. In the next part, a direct approach for the triangulation of 3D parametric surfaces is extended to the family of discrete 3D surfaces represented by manifold triangulations of arbitrary nodal topology. The last part is dedicated to the generation of mixed quad-dominant and all-quadrilateral meshes.Available from STL Prague, CZ / NTK - National Technical LibrarySIGLECZCzech Republi