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Connectivity of the mesh

The connectivity of a mesh is the definition of the connection of its vertices. A mesh is called structured if the connectivity is same throughout the mesh and each element has a fixed number of neighbours. An unstructured mesh does not have a fixed connectivity among its elements (Figure 2.2).


  
Figure 2.2: Structured and unstructured meshes
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Anirudh Modi
1/16/1998