Manifold-Based B-Splines on Unstructured Meshes

Zhang, Qiaoling; Takacs, Thomas; Cirak, Fehmi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49836-8_12

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“…In computer-aided design numerous constructions have been proposed to deal with extraordinary vertices in a surface mesh, including geometrically G k and parametrically C k continuous constructions [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], subdivision surfaces [34][35][36][37][38][39][40] and manifold constructions [41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. There is, however, a very limited number of constructions for volume meshes, including [48][49][50][51][52][53]; most likely because conventional computer-aided design representations do not require a volume parametrisation.…”

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“…The proposed approach uses, like the manifold-based constructions [43][44][45][46][47], the partition of unity method to smoothly blend mixed B-splines with C ∞ continuous Bernstein basis functions. Unlike manifold-based constructions, the two types of basis functions are blended in the Euclidean ambient space, i.e.…”

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“…It is impossible to map every multidimensional physical domain with arbitrary topology onto a single parametric domain. This can be achieved only by introducing an atlas consisting of several charts with respective parametric domains and transition functions [45][46][47]. The definition of such smooth transition function on unstructured meshes is usually very challenging.…”

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An optimally convergent smooth blended B-spline construction for semi-structured quadrilateral and hexahedral meshes

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Cirak³

2021

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Easy to construct and optimally convergent generalisations of B-splines to unstructured meshes are essential for the application of isogeometric analysis to domains with non-trivial topologies. Nonetheless, especially for hexahedral meshes, the construction of smooth and optimally convergent isogeometric analysis basis functions is still an open question. We introduce a simple partition of unity construction that yields smooth blended B-splines on unstructured quadrilateral and hexahedral meshes. The new basis functions, referred to as SB-splines, are obtained by, first, defining a linearly independent set of mixed smoothness splines that are C 0 continuous in the unstructured regions of the mesh and have higher smoothness everywhere else. Next, globally smooth linearly independent splines are obtained by smoothly blending the set of mixed smoothness splines with Bernstein basis functions of equal degree. One of the key novelties of our approach is that the required smooth weight functions are obtained from the first set of mixed smoothness splines. The obtained SB-splines are smooth, non-negative, have no breakpoints within the elements and reduce to conventional B-splines away from the extraordinary features in the mesh. Although we consider only quadratic B-splines in this paper, the construction carries over to arbitrary degrees. We demonstrate the excellent performance and optimal convergence of the SB-splines studying Poisson and biharmonic problems in one, two and three dimensions.

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