Current Issues and Trends in Meshing and Geometric Processing for Computational Engineering Analyses

导师发了这篇文章给我，会上还让我好好消化这篇文章，于是又拿起这篇文章，读了一遍，现内容大致概括如下：

首先是摘要：

This paper presents the current issues and trends in meshing and geometric processing, core tasks in the preparation stage of computational engineering analyses. In product development, computational simulation of product functionality and manufacturing process have contributed significantly toward improving the quality of a product, shortening the time-to-market and reducing the cost of the product and manufacturing process. The computational simulation can predict various physical behaviors of a target object or system, including its structural, thermal, fluid, dynamic, and electro-magnetic behaviors. In industry, the computer-aided engineering (CAE) software packages have been the driving force behind the ever-increasing usage of computational engineering analyses. While these tools have been improved continuously since their inception in the early 1960s, the demand for more complex computational simulation has grown significantly in recent years, creating some major shortfalls in the capability of current CAE tools. This paper first discusses the current trends of computational engineering analyses and then focuses on two areas of such shortfalls: meshing and geometric processing, critical tasks required in the preparation stage of engineering analyses that use common numerical methods such as the finite element method and the boundary element method.

本文主要详细介绍了组成engineering process的三个过程(computer-aided design(CAD), computer-aided engineering(CAE), computer-aided manufacturing(CAM))中CAE过程，其他包括了Preparation，Simulation和Reporting，本文主要重点讲解Preparation里的一些问题，For this step is currently the largest obstacle。

 

一、Trends in Computational Engineering Analysis：

1) Paradigm Shift: From Analysis-for-Verification to Analysis-for-Optimization;

对于传统的downstream verification，CAE一般用来评价产品设计和制造过程是否满足指定的需求；而对于upstream optimization，CAE则在产品进行更深一步的细节设计前就使用，预测当前设计的产品的性能和潜在的问题。

2) Increased Complexity in Computational Simulation(Nonlinearity, Multi-physics, large-scale, Multi-scale).

Nonlinearity：在modeling and simulation of a physical behavior中具有更多的非线性性，如更多的geometric nonlinearity.

Multi-physics：对于描述一个物体时，需要模拟物体的structural behavior and the thermal-fluid behavior，从而增加了复杂度.

large-scale：比如对于应用---car crash FEM simulation，increased 200 times in the past two decades

Multi-scale：不同scale的features对不同的模拟产生不同的影响，further research is required to establish a standard, systematic methodology for multiscale modeling

 

二、Meshing ith Anistropy, Directionality, and Adaptivity：

1) Characteristics of desired meshes;

包括了四个特性：1, Element type; 2, Element size; 3, Anisotropy; 4, Directionality

2) Anistropy;

An anisotropic mesh is a mesh stretched in a direction defined by a tensor metric.

3) Directionality;

the directionality of a mesh is an important characteristic that affects the solution convergence and accuracy

4) Adaptivity.

Adaptive meshing generates a better-performing mesh based on the previous analysis result 

 

三、Geometric Processing for Computational Engineering Analysis：

1) Geometry Simplification(Feature Removal, Dimensional Reduction);

2) Constraint-Edge Selection;

3) Image-Based Geometry Reconstruction(Image-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction, Generation of Missing Geometric Information).

 

概述了网格化和几何处理在CAE中的具体应用，对比了一些方法的优缺点，可以说指出并总结了这个领域的一些问题。