...Tiantian Liu; Juelin Leng; Kailong Xu; Quan Xu; Yang Yang; Peng Zheng Purpose Automatic mesh generation is still a challenge problem for combustion fluid dynamics simulations because of the high-quality requirement and complexity of geometries. This paper aims to find an efficient automatic...

... for various shells. The changes in the bending, membrane and shear strain energies during the optimization process are also monitored. Finite elements Axisymmetric shell structures Mindlin‐Reissner shell theory Shape optimization Automatic mesh generation Sensitivity analysis Sequential quadratic...