Title :
3D automatic mesh generation for boundary integral method
Author :
Nicolas, A. ; Nicolas, L.
Author_Institution :
Lab. d´´Electrotech. de Lyon, Ecully, France
fDate :
3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The 3-D automatic mesh generator developed for the Phi3d package is presented. The Phi3d package allows the computation of three-dimensional electric or magnetic fields by solving the Laplace equation. The proposed method is based on the combination of two different main algorithms: automatic generation of triangles for the plane surfaces, as is usually done in 2-D, including geometric amelioration and refinement, and automatic generation of quadrangles for the curved surfaces, using linear Coons patches. Furthermore, some simple surfaces are directly meshed when generated from a database of primary objects (sphere, cube, cylinder, etc.) by translation of a surface along a line, or by a rotation around an axis
Keywords :
electric fields; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic field theory; integral equations; magnetic fields; numerical methods; 3D automatic mesh generation; Laplace equation; Phi3d package; algorithms; automatic triangles generation; boundary integral method; linear Coons patches; magnetic fields; three dimensional electric field; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic modeling; Electrostatics; Integral equations; Laplace equations; Magnetic fields; Magnetic materials; Magnetostatics; Mesh generation; Packaging;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on