AUTOMATED PROCEDURES FOR BOOLEAN OPERATIONS ON FINITE-ELEMENT MESHES

Develops a method which performs Boolean operations on two unstructure d arbitrary meshes. Deletes the overlapping or interfering elements of two individual meshes and creates a mesh of tetrahedral elements in t heir place to provide an interface between the remnants of the origina l meshes. Gives various examples where two volume meshes are joined or where a surface mesh is imposed on a volume mesh. Shows, through thes e examples, the effects of various input parameters on the quality of the final mesh.