Improvement of unstructured quadrilateral mesh quality for multigrid analysis

Yoshitaka Wada, Takuji Hayashi, Masanori Kikuchi, Fei Xu

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Abstract

Due to more complex and severe design restrictions, more effective and faster finite element analyses are demanded. There are several ways to compute FE analysis efficiently: parallel computing, fast iterative or direct solvers, adaptive analysis and so on. One of the most effective analysis ways is the combination of adaptive analysis and multigrid iterative solver, because an adaptive analysis requires several meshes with difference resolutions and multigrid solver utilizes such meshes to accelerate its computation. However, convergence of multigrid solver is largely affected by initial shape of each element. An effective mesh improvement method is proposed here. It is the combination of mesh coarsening and refinement. A good mesh can be obtained by the method to be applied to an initial mesh, and better convergence is achieved by the improved initial mesh.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Fracture and Materials Behavior - Selected, peer reviewed papers of the Seventh International Conference on Fracture and Strength of Solids (FEOFS2007)
PublisherTrans Tech Publications
Pages833-838
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)0878493999, 9780878493999
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event7th International Conference on Fracture and Strength of Solids, FEOFS 2007 - Urumqi, China
Duration: 27 Aug 200729 Aug 2007

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume33-37 PART 2
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Fracture and Strength of Solids, FEOFS 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityUrumqi
Period27/08/0729/08/07

Keywords

  • FEM
  • Mesh refinement and coarsening
  • Multigrid solver

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