An automatic quadrilateral surface discretization method and apparatus is provided for automatically discretizing a geometric region without decomposing the region. The automated quadrilateral surface discretization method and apparatus automatically generates a mesh of all quadrilateral elements which...http://www.google.com/patents/US5315537?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5315537 - Automated quadrilateral surface discretization method and apparatus usable to generate mesh in a finite element analysis system