Automatic dimensional reduction and meshing of stiffened thin-wall structures

Nolan, Declan; Tierney, Christopher M.; Armstrong, Cecil; Robinson, Trevor; Makem, Jonathan E.

doi:10.1007/s00366-013-0317-y

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“…As the automated time includes the generation of the non-manifold model and extracting the topology into the data structure the actual query time is insignificant and the time-saving grows as more interface regions need to be defined. Computational efficiency and mesh validation studies for the decomposed and mixed-dimensional analyses for the industrial use case model can be found in [8,10].…”

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“…Robust management of model interfaces also allows mesh sizing controls to be assigned either side of an interface region in order to achieve mesh conformity, or to simplify any MPC connections. The work described in this paper is utilized as the underlying technology for the Simulation Intent framework [10], to automatically apply the appropriate coupling strategy to adjacent cells in a mixed-dimensional model. This automated process was demonstrated on a component of industrial complexity, Fig.…”

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Interface Management for Automating Finite Element Analysis Workflows

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Interface Management for Automating Finite Element Analysis Workflows

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Computer-Aided Design and Applications

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“…Similarly, alternative low delity schemes could be considered such as the dimensional reduction process of Nolan et al [42]. The idea of computing the faces to which analysis attributes are to be applied [16] could also be used to ensure the model updating is robust against topology changes.…”

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Multifidelity Multidisciplinary Whole-Engine Thermomechanical Design Optimization

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Benito³

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Journal of Propulsion and Power

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Traditionally the optimization of a turbomachinery engine casing for tip clearance has involved either 2D transient thermo-mechanical simulations or 3D mechanical simulations. The following paper illustrates that 3D transient whole engine thermomechanical simulations can be used within tip clearance optimizations and that the eciency of such optimizations can be improved when a multi-delity surrogate modeling approach is employed. These simulations are employed in conjunction with a rotor sub-optimization utilizing surrogate models of rotordynamics performance, stress,

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“…14 and 15 is the output from a decomposition tool, other simplified models can also be integrated using the proposed approach. In terms of linking dimensionally reduced entities more details are provided in [9] and [19]. Once relationships have been established between dimensionally reduced cells and their equivalent original representation, mesh parentage relationships can be transferred between the models as described throughout this paper.…”

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Using Mesh-Geometry Relationships to Transfer Analysis Models between CAE Tools

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Robinson

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Proceedings of the 22nd International Meshing Roundtable

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General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Abstract. Integrating analysis and design models is a complex task due to differences between the models and the architectures of the toolsets used to create them. This complexity is increased with the use of many different tools for specific tasks during an analysis process. In this work various design and analysis models are linked throughout the design lifecycle, allowing them to be moved between packages in a way not currently available. Three technologies named Cellular Modeling, Virtual Topology and Equivalencing are combined to demonstrate how different finite element meshes generated on abstract analysis geometries can be linked to their original geometry. Cellular models allow interfaces between adjacent cells to be extracted and exploited to transfer analysis attributes such as mesh associativity or boundary conditions between equivalent model representations. Virtual Topology descriptions used for geometry clean-up operations are explicitly stored so they can be reused by downstream applications. Establishing the equivalence relationships between models enables analysts to utilize multiple packages for specialist tasks without worrying about compatibility issues or substantial rework.

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Automatic dimensional reduction and meshing of stiffened thin-wall structures

Cited by 20 publications

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Interface Management for Automating Finite Element Analysis Workflows

Interface Management for Automating Finite Element Analysis Workflows

Multifidelity Multidisciplinary Whole-Engine Thermomechanical Design Optimization

Using Mesh-Geometry Relationships to Transfer Analysis Models between CAE Tools

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