An interface between an hp-adaptive finite element package and the pre- and post-processor GiD

  • Authors:

  • Daniel García-Doñoro;Luis E. García-Castillo;Ignacio Gómez-Revuelto

  • Affiliations:

  • Dep. Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Escuela Politécnica Superior (Edificio Torres Quevedo), Avenida de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés, ...;Dep. Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Escuela Politécnica Superior (Edificio Torres Quevedo), Avenida de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés, ...;Dep. de Ingeniería Audiovisual y Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

An interface between GiD, the interactive graphical user interface used for numerical simulations, developed at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) of the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna and the Geometrical Modeling Package (GMP) of the fully automatic hp-adaptive finite element (FE) software, developed at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) of the University of Texas at Austin, is presented. GiD is used to construct a tessellation of the problem domain into FE-like regions (blocks in GMP terminology), and the interface obtains and transfers all the topological and geometrical information to GMP. Then, GMP automatically constructs a parameterization for each FE-like region of the GMP mesh, which later can be used to generate the actual FE-mesh and support geometry updates during mesh refinements.