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

Table 4

Time (sec) to optimize various surface meshes.

Mesh (number of elements)	Newton	NLCG	Steepest descent
Pig (surface, 3K)	61	226	218
Cow (surface, 3K)	90	250	241
Igea (surface, 40K)	297	1,422	1,398
Slope (surface, 3K)	504	1,810	1,802