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This work presents a new approach to conformal all-quadrilateral mesh adaptation. Most current quadrilateral adaptivity techniques rely on mesh refinement or a complete remesh of the domain. In contrast, we introduce a new method that incorporates both conformal refinement and coarsening strategies on an existing mesh of any density or configuration. Given a sizing function, this method modifies the mesh by combining template-based quadrilateral refinement methods with recent developments in localized quadrilateral coarsening and quality improvement into an automated mesh adaptation routine. Implementation details and examples are included.
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Anderson, B.D., Benzley, S.E., Owen, S.J. (2009). Automatic All Quadrilateral Mesh Adaption through Refinement and Coarsening. In: Clark, B.W. (eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04319-2_32
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