Abstract. Two dynamic mesh methods— Radial Basis Function (RBF) method and Delaunay method which have been used widely in fluid-structure interaction recently were compared. Primarily, the basic theory of these two methods and the dynamic mesh process were presented. Furthermore, using the variable bandwidth sparse matrix storage technique, the computational efficiency of the RBF method can be ...

This work presents a method for multiresolution mesh extraction with important mathematical properties. The generated mesh represents a regular surface from 3D Euclidian space. The input surface may be specified either implicitly or directly as a volumetric object. The method applies simplification operations to obtain a low resolution initial mesh and applies refinement operations to obtain a ...

Standard Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) methods for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems fail due to excessive mesh deformations when the structural displacement is large. We propose a method that successfully deals with this problem, keeping the same mesh connectivity while enforcing mesh alignment with the structure. The proposed Extended ALE Method relies on a va...

A new computational method that creates a hex-dominant mesh of an arbitrary 3D geometric domain is presented. The proposed method generates a high-quality hexdominant mesh by: (1) controlling the directionality of the output hex-dominant mesh; and (2) avoiding ill-shaped elements induced by nodes located too closely to each other. The proposed method takes a 3D geometric domain as input and cre...

In this paper, we apply an AMG prconditioner to solve the unsteady NavierStokes equations with moving mesh finite element method. 4P1 − P1 element pair is selected, which is based on the data structure of hierarchy geometry tree. We choose two-layer nested meshes including velocity mesh and pressure mesh. AMG preconditioners are designed for PDE solver and divergence-interpolation in moving mes...

The aim of this study was to produce a 3D mesh of defect free electrospun cellulose acetate nanofibres and to use this to produce a prototype composite resin containing nanofibre fillers. This might find use as an aesthetic orthodontic bracket material or composite veneer for restorative dentistry. In this laboratory based study cellulose acetate was dissolved in an acetone and dimethylacetamid...

Background: Asthma management disparities (AMD) between African and White Americans are significant and alarming. Various determinants have been suggested by research frameworks that affect the unfair distribution of resources for asthma management to groups who are more or less advantaged socially. Ecosocial models organize determinants into individual/family, healthcare, community, and socioc...

The implementation of an adaptive mesh embedding (h-reflnement) schemes using unstructured grid in two-dimensional Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is reported. In this technique, local isotropic refinement is used to introduce new meshes where local cell Knudsen number is less than some preset value. This simple scheme, however, has several severe consequences affecting the performa...