Title
Imposing angle boundary conditions on B-spline/NURBS surfaces
Abstract
In this paper, we study the construction of a B-spline surface satisfying prescribed angle distribution (with respect to a chosen vector) of tangent planes along its boundary curve. This problem arises e.g. in a creation of a parametric geometric model of a Pelton turbine bucket, where specific angle distributions along a splitter and an outlet curve have to be fulfilled in order to control the flow of water into and out of the bucket. We prove that for a given B-spline curve c ( t ) , t 0 , 1 ] , the exact solution exists only in very special cases (for a special form of an angle function f ( t ) ). Further, we formulate an algorithm for finding an approximate solution. We also derive a bound on its approximation error and give a numerical evidence that the approximation order of the proposed algorithm is four. Finally, the method is demonstrated on several examples. We study the construction of a B-spline surface satisfying prescribed angle distribution of tangent planes along its boundary curve.We prove that for a given B-spline curve, the exact solution exists only in very special cases (for a special form of an angle function).We propose an algorithm for finding an approximate solution, derive a bound on its approximation error and study the approximation order of the proposed algorithm. Display Omitted
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.cad.2014.10.002
Computer-Aided Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
nurbs surface
B-spline,Exact solutions in general relativity,Boundary value problem,Mathematical optimization,Flow (psychology),Geometric modeling,Tangent,Parametric statistics,Mathematics,Approximation error
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
C
0010-4485
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kristýna Michálková121.74
Bohumír Bastl213610.49