Generating blend surfaces using a perturbation method

  • Authors:
  • M. I. G. Bloor;M. J. Wilson;S. J. Mulligan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematical Studies University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;Department of Applied Mathematical Studies University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, a method is developed for generating blend surfaces. Here, a blend is considered to be a transition surface between primary surfaces that meets those surfaces with a specified degree of continuity. They are generated as the solution of elliptic partial differential equations, perturbed by the addition of one or more higher derivatives multiplied by a small parameter. The method of matched asymptotic expansions is used to arrive at efficient analytic representations of the surfaces.