Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The bifurcation of tracked scalar waves
SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing - Telecommunication Programs at U.S. Universities
A front-tracking method for viscous, incompressible, multi-fluid flows
Journal of Computational Physics
Two-dimensional front tracking based on high resolution wave propagation methods
Journal of Computational Physics
The multilevel finite element method for adaptive mesh optimization and visualization of volume data
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
3D scan conversion of CSG models into distance volumes
VVS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
Implicit functions with guaranteed differential properties
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Implicit fairing of irregular meshes using diffusion and curvature flow
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Singularities in droplet pinching with vanishing viscosity
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Semi-regular mesh extraction from volumes
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An adaptive mesh algorithm for evolving surfaces: simulation of drop breakup and coalescence
Journal of Computational Physics
Shapes and geometries: analysis, differential calculus, and optimization
Shapes and geometries: analysis, differential calculus, and optimization
Boundary integral methods for multicomponent fluids and multiphase materials
Journal of Computational Physics
Dual/Primal mesh optimization for polygonized implicit surfaces
Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Efficient strategies for adaptive 3-D mesh generation over complex orography
Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations
Algebraic Mesh Quality Metrics
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
An Evaluation of Implicit Surface Tilers
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
A hybrid particle level set method for improved interface capturing
Journal of Computational Physics
Triangle: Engineering a 2D Quality Mesh Generator and Delaunay Triangulator
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Dynamic Meshes for Accurate Polygonization of Implicit Surfaces with Sharp Features
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Finite element level set formulations for modelling multiphase flows
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Simulating the dynamics and interactions of flexible fibers in Stokes flows
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A virtual node algorithm for changing mesh topology during simulation
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Simulating water and smoke with an octree data structure
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
A finite element method for surface diffusion: the parametric case
Journal of Computational Physics
A semi-Lagrangian contouring method for fluid simulation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Mesh size functions for implicit geometries and PDE-based gradient limiting
Engineering with Computers
A front tracking algorithm for limited mass diffusion
Journal of Computational Physics
An improved front tracking method for the Euler equations
Journal of Computational Physics
A variational shape optimization framework for image segmentation
A variational shape optimization framework for image segmentation
Adaptive physics based tetrahedral mesh generation using level sets
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Computing three-dimensional two-phase flows with a mass-conserving level set method
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Surface Mesh Smoothing, Regularization, and Feature Detection
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
A Variational Shape Optimization Approach for Image Segmentation with a Mumford-Shah Functional
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
An anisotropic scale-invariant unstructured mesh generator suitable for volumetric imaging data
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
An automatic strategy for adaptive tetrahedral mesh generation
Applied Numerical Mathematics
Lepp-bisection algorithms, applications and mathematical properties
Applied Numerical Mathematics
Robust Topological Operations for Dynamic Explicit Surfaces
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Scale-Space'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision
Shape optimization of peristaltic pumping
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
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We present a method for generating 2-D unstructured triangular meshes that undergo large deformations and topological changes in an automatic way. We employ a method for detecting when topological changes are imminent via distance functions and shape skeletons. When a change occurs, we use a level set method to guide the change of topology of the domain mesh. This is followed by an optimization procedure, using a variational formulation of active contours, that seeks to improve boundary mesh conformity to the zero level contour of the level set function. Our method is advantageous for Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) type methods and directly allows for using a variational formulation of the physics being modeled and simulated, including the ability to account for important geometric information in the model (such as for surface tension driven flow). Furthermore, the meshing procedure is not required at every time-step and the level set update is only needed during a topological change. Hence, our method does not significantly affect computational cost.