A height field is a set of height distance values sampled at a finite set of sample points in a two-dimensional parameter domain. A height field usually contains a lot of redundant information, much of which can be removed without a substantial degradation of its quality. A common approach to reducing the size of a height field representation is to use a piecewise polygonal surface approximatio...

Topics Direct Approach for Discrete Systems Strong and Weak Forms for One-Dimensional Problems Second order boundary value problems (1D) Scalar field problems: heat conduction, advection-diffusion Triangular elements Computer implementation Isoparametric elements Numerical integration Vector field problems: elasticity equations Beam elements Eigenvalue problems Time dependent problems Special t...

Extensive studies have been conducted on the generation of unstructured meshes of triangles for the purpose of nite element analysis. Delaunay triangulation has been the basis of several such methods, and has lead to algorithms that can produce unstructured meshes of triangles for any planar domain. However, there have not been many robust methods for producing unstructured meshes of quadrilate...

spectral decomposition is a powerful tool for analysis of seismic data. fourier transform determines the frequency contents of a signal. but for analysis of non-stationary signals, 1-d transform to frequency domain is not sufficient. in early years, transforming of seismic traces into time and frequency domain was done via windowed fourier transform, called a short time fourier transform (stft)...

This paper presents the application of finite element method (FEM) to analyze the tube temperature distribution in a water tube boiler. Two-dimensional (2-D) finite element models are developed where the axi-symmetric triangular elements for the cross section area along the water tube are applied in computer software namely MSC Patran-Nastran. The analysis of the temperature distribution for ev...