Second-order shell elements: Meshing the thin band with secondorder-shell elements produces precise curvilinear geometry. There was a time when the task of building a model for finite-element analysis ...
Meshing for FEA and CFD is simple: Just start with your CAD model, break it up into a bunch of small pieces, and you’re all set to go. Provided, of course, that you don’t mind getting totally bogus ...