“…Isogeometric analysis based on NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) has been described in a number of papers (e.g. [12,24,25,41]) and the efficient implementation of the method in open source software has been discussed in [26,29,54,57]. Isogeometric analysis employs piecewise polynomial curves composed of linear combinations of Bspline basis functions.…”