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June 06, 2013

What is Meshing?

Meshing involves:
  1. discretisation of a continuum into finite number of elements
  2. defining element type (determined by shape functions)
  3. nodal connectivity
A finite element mesh adapted from Dr TE Kendon's research page
Traditionally, meshing is performed by human user. Automatic meshing technologies are becoming more readily available and user friendly in FEA pre-processors as the competition in the FEA software market gets fierce than ever.

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