TY - JOUR
T1 - An enhanced approach to automatic decomposition of thin-walled components for hexahedral-dominant meshing
AU - Sun, Liang
AU - Tierney, Christopher M.
AU - Armstrong, Cecil G.
AU - Robinson, Trevor T.
N1 - Accepted date in accepted version
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - Hexahedral (hex) meshes can be generated for CAD models of complex thin-walled components by isolating thin-sheet and long-slender regions, quad meshing one of the bounding faces, and sweeping the quad mesh through the volume to create hex elements. Continuing the work in Sun et al. (Proc Eng 163:225–237, 2016), where an improved approach to thin-sheet identification was presented, an enhanced automatic method for long-slender region identification is proposed in this paper. The objective is to improve the efficiency and decomposition quality compared to existing long-slender region identification processes. Geometric measures such as the edge length and the face width are employed to generate sizing measures, which are in turn used to identify candidate long-slender regions. Careful consideration is given to the generation and positioning of the cutting faces required to isolate the long-slender regions by assessing a priori quad mesh quality on the wall faces. It is shown that a significant reduction in the number of degrees of freedom (DOF) can be achieved by applying anisotropic hex elements on the identified regions.
AB - Hexahedral (hex) meshes can be generated for CAD models of complex thin-walled components by isolating thin-sheet and long-slender regions, quad meshing one of the bounding faces, and sweeping the quad mesh through the volume to create hex elements. Continuing the work in Sun et al. (Proc Eng 163:225–237, 2016), where an improved approach to thin-sheet identification was presented, an enhanced automatic method for long-slender region identification is proposed in this paper. The objective is to improve the efficiency and decomposition quality compared to existing long-slender region identification processes. Geometric measures such as the edge length and the face width are employed to generate sizing measures, which are in turn used to identify candidate long-slender regions. Careful consideration is given to the generation and positioning of the cutting faces required to isolate the long-slender regions by assessing a priori quad mesh quality on the wall faces. It is shown that a significant reduction in the number of degrees of freedom (DOF) can be achieved by applying anisotropic hex elements on the identified regions.
KW - Automatic decomposition
KW - Efficient meshing
KW - Geometry reasoning
KW - Hex-dominant meshing
KW - Long-slender region identification
KW - Sweep meshing
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U2 - 10.1007/s00366-017-0550-x
DO - 10.1007/s00366-017-0550-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035097947
VL - 34
SP - 431
EP - 447
JO - Engineering with Computers
JF - Engineering with Computers
SN - 0177-0667
IS - 3
ER -