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Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

In this paper, we present a feature-aware SPH method for the concurrent and automated isotropic unstructured mesh generation. Two additional objectives are achieved with the proposed method compared to the original SPH-based mesh generator…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Zhe Ji , Lin Fu , Xiangyu Hu , Nikolaus Adams

This paper presents a novel spline-based meshing technique that allows for usage of boundary-conforming meshes for unsteady flow and temperature simulations in co-rotating twin-screw extruders. Spline-based descriptions of arbitrary screw…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Jochen Hinz , Jan Helmig , Matthias Möller , Stefanie Elgeti

The presented article contains a 2D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes with a prescribed size h of elements. These finite element meshes can serve as standard discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ilona Dominika Kosinska

The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Ilona D. Kosinska

Several authors have employed Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for stress and strain analysis in orthopaedic biomechanics. Unfortunately, the use of three-dimensional models is time consuming and consequently the number of analysis to be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Béatrice Couteau , Yohan Payan , Stéphane Lavallee

We present a new algorithm for the automatic one-shot generation of scattered node sets on irregular 2D and 3D domains using Poisson disk sampling coupled to novel parameter-free, high-order parametric Spherical Radial Basis Function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Varun Shankar , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

Tetrahedral frame fields have applications to certain classes of nematic liquid crystals and frustrated media. We consider the problem of constructing a tetrahedral frame field in three dimensional domains in which the boundary normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Dmitry Golovaty , Matthias Kurzke , Jose Alberto Montero , Daniel Spirn

The creation of a volumetric mesh representing the interior of an input polygonal mesh is a common requirement in graphics and computational mechanics applications. Most mesh creation techniques assume that the input surface is not…

The zero level set of a piecewise-affine function with respect to a consistent tetrahedral subdivision of a domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is a piecewise-planar hyper-surface. We prove that if a family of consistent tetrahedral subdivions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Xianmin Xu

Meshing of geometric domains having curved boundaries by affine simplices produces a polytopial approximation of those domains. The resulting error in the representation of the domain limits the accuracy of finite element methods based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 James Cheung , Mauro Perego , Pavel Bochev , Max Gunzburger

We consider the task of generating realistic 3D shapes, which is useful for a variety of applications such as automatic scene generation and physical simulation. Compared to other 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, meshes are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zhen Liu , Yao Feng , Michael J. Black , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Liam Paull , Weiyang Liu

Many tasks in geometry processing are modeled as variational problems solved numerically using the finite element method. For solid shapes, this requires a volumetric discretization, such as a boundary conforming tetrahedral mesh.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Silvia Sellán , Herng Yi Cheng , Yuming Ma , Mitchell Dembowski , Alec Jacobson

The correct treatment of boundary conditions is a key step in the development of the SPH method. The SPH community has to face several challenges in this regard - in particular, a primordial aspect for any boundary formulation is to ensure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-15 J Calderon-Sanchez , JL Cercos-Pita , D Duque

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

Two important classes of three-dimensional elements in computational meshes are hexahedra and tetrahedra. While several efficient methods exist that convert a hexahedral element to a tetrahedral elements, the existing algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Aman Timalsina , Matthew G. Knepley

One remarkable feature of virtual element methods (VEMs) is their great flexibility and robustness when used on almost arbitrary polytopal meshes. This very feature makes it widely used in both fitted and unfitted mesh methods. Despite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Ruchi Guo

In this article, we provide a detailed survey of techniques for hexahedral mesh generation. We cover the whole spectrum of alternative approaches to mesh generation, as well as post processing algorithms for connectivity editing and mesh…

Many problems in engineering, chemistry and physics require the representation of solutions in complex geometries. In the paper we deal with a problem of unstructured mesh generation for the control volume method. We propose an algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Leszczynski Jacek , Pluta Sebastian

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes