TY - GEN
T1 - Universal meshes for the simulation of brittle fracture and moving boundary problems
AU - Chiaramonte, Maurizio M.
AU - Gawlik, Evan S.
AU - Kabaria, Hardik
AU - Lew, Adrian J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Universal meshes have recently appeared in the literature as a computationally efficient and robust paradigm for the generation of conforming simplicial meshes for domains with evolving boundaries. The main idea behind a universal mesh is to immerse the moving boundary in a background mesh (the universalmesh), and to produce a mesh that conforms to the moving boundary at any given time by adjusting a few elements of the background mesh. In this manuscript we present the application of universal meshes to the simulation of brittle fracturing. To this extent, we provide a high level description of a crack propagation algorithm and showcase its capabilities. Alongside universal meshes for the simulation of brittle fracture, we provide other examples for which universal meshes prove to be a powerful tool, namely fluid flow past moving obstacles. Lastly, we conclude the manuscript with some remarks on the current state of universal meshes and future directions.
AB - Universal meshes have recently appeared in the literature as a computationally efficient and robust paradigm for the generation of conforming simplicial meshes for domains with evolving boundaries. The main idea behind a universal mesh is to immerse the moving boundary in a background mesh (the universalmesh), and to produce a mesh that conforms to the moving boundary at any given time by adjusting a few elements of the background mesh. In this manuscript we present the application of universal meshes to the simulation of brittle fracturing. To this extent, we provide a high level description of a crack propagation algorithm and showcase its capabilities. Alongside universal meshes for the simulation of brittle fracture, we provide other examples for which universal meshes prove to be a powerful tool, namely fluid flow past moving obstacles. Lastly, we conclude the manuscript with some remarks on the current state of universal meshes and future directions.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-39022-2_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-39022-2_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978249319
SN - 9783319390215
T3 - Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics
SP - 115
EP - 134
BT - Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems - In Honor of Michael Ortiz’s 60th Birthday
A2 - Weinberg, Kerstin
A2 - Pandolfi, Anna
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International symposium on Innovative numerical approaches for materials and structures in multi-field and multi-scale problems, 2014
Y2 - 1 September 2014 through 4 September 2014
ER -