A multiscale formulation for FEM and IgA

A numerical method is formulated based on Finite Elements, Isogeometric Analysis and a Multiscale technique. Isogeometric Analysis, which uses B-Splines and NURBS as basis functions, is applied to evaluate its performance. The analyzed PDE is Poisson's Equation. The method starts with a coarse...

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Autores: Mora Paz, Jaime David, Mantilla González, Juan Miguel, Calo, Victor
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:Repositorio UN
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/61873
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/61873
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/60685/
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51 Matemáticas / Mathematics
multiescala
análisis isogeométrico
elementos finitos
Poisson
B-splines
NURBS
análisis numérico
multiscale
isogeometric analysis
finite elements
B- splines
numerical analysis
FLOP
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Sumario:A numerical method is formulated based on Finite Elements, Isogeometric Analysis and a Multiscale technique. Isogeometric Analysis, which uses B-Splines and NURBS as basis functions, is applied to evaluate its performance. The analyzed PDE is Poisson's Equation. The method starts with a coarse mesh which is refined to obtain each scale, considering every current scale mesh's element as a subdomain to the following scale. Local problems of each subdomain are solved independently, and the system is executed iteratively. Isogeometric analysis shows to have a better performance regarding approximation error and convergence in the iterative method that was derived here, which favorably influences computational cost.