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Multi-material problems often exhibit complex geometries along with physical responses presenting large spatial gradients or discontinuities. In these cases, providing high-quality body-fitted finite element analysis meshes and obtaining…

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Two approaches that use a density field for seeding holes in level set topology optimization are proposed. In these approaches, the level set field describes the material-void interface while the density field describes the material…

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Obtaining high quality particle distribution representing clean geometry in pre-processing is essential for the simulation accuracy of the particle-based methods. In this paper, several level-set based techniques for cleaning up `dirty'…

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