A general purpose adaptivity driver for FE software

  • Authors:
  • Jens Müller;Jan G. Korvink

  • Affiliations:
  • IMTEK, Institute for Microsystem Technology, Albert Ludwigs University, Georges-Koehler-Allee 103, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany;IMTEK, Institute for Microsystem Technology, Albert Ludwigs University, Georges-Koehler-Allee 103, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a tool that serves as an automatic mesh adaptivity driver program for general purpose finite element (FE) software packages. Many commercially available FE programs lack a feature to control the numerical solution's accuracy properly. Our tool implements a mesh adaptive method that, in conjunction with separate finite element software, allows one to fully automatically improve the quality of the numerical solution up to a user specified accuracy. We demonstrate the use of the package with selected computational examples performed with a commercial FE package, ANSYS, and with our FE program FEMEngine.