LIU Deng-xue, ZHANG You-liang, DING Xiu-li, et al. Local mesh refinement algorithm based on analysis-suitable T-spline in numerical manifold method[J]. 2019, 40(4): 1584-1595.
LIU Deng-xue, ZHANG You-liang, DING Xiu-li, et al. Local mesh refinement algorithm based on analysis-suitable T-spline in numerical manifold method[J]. 2019, 40(4): 1584-1595.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2017.2478.
Local mesh refinement algorithm based on analysis-suitable T-spline in numerical manifold method
a finite element mesh or a regular mesh is used as the mathematical covering system in the numerical manifold method(NMM). The advantage of the regular mesh is that it has no requirement to conform to the boundary of the solution domain and various discontinuities. In this paper
the regular rectangular mesh was used as the mathematical mesh in NMM
and the analysis-suitable T-spline was introduced into NMM to realize the local refinement. As the analysis-suitable T-spline was defined over a mildly restricted T-mesh
it presents many important mathematical properties
such as linear independence
partition of unity and highly localized refinement capability. However
after an analysis-suitable T-mesh was locally refined
the generated new T-spline was not analysis-suitable. Therefore
a simple local refinement algorithm was developed in this paper to make sure that the refined mathematical mesh was still analysis-suitable. Moreover
the results from numerical examples show that the algorithm has strong applicability in large-stress gradient areas such as stress concentration area and crack tips.