The NURBS book
A critical evaluation of the resolution properties of B-Spline and compact finite difference methods
Journal of Computational Physics
A B-spline-based approach to heterogeneous objects design and analysis
Computer-Aided Design
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
Volumetric parameterization and trivariate B-spline fitting using harmonic functions
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Swept Volume Parameterization for Isogeometric Analysis
Proceedings of the 13th IMA International Conference on Mathematics of Surfaces XIII
An isogeometric BEM for exterior potential-flow problems in the plane
2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling
NURBS based molecular force calculation
2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling
Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA
Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA
Shape optimization of continua using NURBS as basis functions
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Isogeometric analysis on triangulations
Computer-Aided Design
Isogeometric shape optimization in fluid mechanics
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
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In this paper, we present a boundary integral based approach to isogeometric analysis and shape optimization. For analysis, it uses the same basis, Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) basis, for both representing object boundary and for approximating physical fields in analysis via a Boundary-Integral-Equation Method (BIEM). We propose the use of boundary points corresponding to Greville abscissae as collocation points. We conducted h-, p- and k-refinement study for linear elasticity and heat conduction problems. Our numerical experiments show that collocation at Greville abscissae leads to overall better convergence and robustness. Replacing rational B-splines with the linear B-Splines as shape functions for approximating solution space in analysis does not yield significant difference in convergence. For shape optimization, it uses NURBS control points to parameterize the boundary shape. A gradient based optimization approach is adopted where analytical sensitivities of how control points affect objective and constraint functions are derived. Two 3D shape optimization examples are demonstrated. Our study finds that the boundary integral based isogeometric analysis and optimization have the following advantages: (1) the NURBS based boundary integral exhibits superior computational advantages over the usual Lagrange polynomials based BIEM on a per degree-of-freedom basis; (2) it bypasses the need for domain parameterization, a bottleneck in current NURBS based volumetric isogeometric analysis and shape optimization; (3) it offers tighter integration of CAD and analysis since both the geometric models for both analysis and optimization are the same NURBS geometry.