Title
Constructing analysis-suitable parameterization of computational domain from CAD boundary by variational harmonic method
Abstract
In isogeometric analysis, parameterization of computational domain has great effects as mesh generation in finite element analysis. In this paper, based on the concept of harmonic mapping from the computational domain to parametric domain, a variational harmonic approach is proposed to construct analysis-suitable parameterization of computational domain from CAD boundary for 2D and 3D isogeometric applications. Different from the previous elliptic mesh generation method in finite element analysis, the proposed method focuses on isogeometric version, and converts the elliptic PDE into a nonlinear optimization problem, in which a regular term is integrated into the optimization formulation to achieve more uniform and orthogonal iso-parametric structure near convex (concave) parts of the boundary. Several examples are presented to show the efficiency of the proposed method in 2D and 3D isogeometric analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.jcp.2013.06.029
J. Comput. Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
isogeometric application,analysis-suitable parameterization,finite element analysis,elliptic pde,cad boundary,isogeometric analysis,computational domain,harmonic mapping,variational harmonic method,isogeometric version,variational method,grid generation
CAD,Mathematical optimization,Variational method,Isogeometric analysis,Mathematical analysis,Harmonic,Finite element method,Regular polygon,Parametric statistics,Mesh generation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
252
C
0021-9991
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.02
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Xu1956.79
Bernard Mourrain21074113.70
RéGis Duvigneau3915.54
André Galligo4988.30