Isogeometric analysis on triangulations

  • Authors:
  • Noah Jaxon;Xiaoping Qian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

We present a method for isogeometric analysis on the triangulation of a domain bounded by NURBS curves. In this method, both the geometry and the physical field are represented by bivariate splines in Bernstein-Bezier form over the triangulation. We describe a set of procedures to construct a parametric domain and its triangulation from a given physical domain, construct C^r-smooth basis functions over the domain, and establish a rational Triangular Bezier Spline (rTBS) based geometric mapping that C^r-smoothly maps the parametric domain to the physical domain and exactly recovers the NURBS boundaries at the domain boundary. As a result, this approach can achieve automated meshing of objects with complex topologies and allow highly localized refinement. Isogeometric analysis of problems from linear elasticity and advection-diffusion analysis is demonstrated.