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COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2023.103653
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NURBS-enhanced finite element method (NEFEM); Mesh generation; De-featuring; Exact geometry; High-order approximation
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This work presents a new method for generating triangular surface meshes in three dimensions for the NURBS-enhanced finite element method. The method allows for triangular elements that span across multiple NURBS surfaces, while maintaining the exact representation of the CAD geometry. This eliminates the need for de-featuring complex watertight CAD models and ensures compliance with user-specified spacing function requirements.
This work presents the first method for generating triangular surface meshes in three dimensions for the NURBS-enhanced finite element method. The generated meshes may contain triangular elements that span across multiple NURBS surfaces, whilst maintaining the exact representation of the CAD geometry. This strategy completely eliminates the need for de-featuring complex watertight CAD models and, at the same time, eliminates any uncertainty associated with the simplification of CAD models. In addition, the ability to create elements that span across multiple surfaces ensures that the generated meshes are highly compliant with the requirements of the user-specified spacing function, even if the CAD model contains very small geometric features. To demonstrate the capability, the proposed strategy is applied to a variety of CAD geometries, taken from areas such as solid/structural mechanics, fluid dynamics and wave propagation.
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