An Efficient Approach for Solving Mesh Optimization Problems Using Newton’s Method

Table 2

Time (sec) to optimize various volume meshes.

Mesh (number of elements)	Newton	NLCG	Steepest descent
3D slope (volume, 3K)	442	1,256	1,248
2-material (volume, 2K)	902	1,760	1,756
Cube (volume, 3K)	82	411	409