ECCOMAS 2024

Comparison of Integration Methods for Cut Elements

  • Teixeira, Guilherme Henrique (TU Graz)
  • Liobl, Michael (University of the Bundeswehr Munich.)
  • Marussig, Benjamim (TU Graz)

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Using an interface inserted in a background mesh is an alternative way of constructing a complex geometrical shape with a relative low meshing efforts. However, this process may require special treatment of elements cut by the interface. Our study focuses on comparing the integration of cut elements defined by implicit and parametric curves. We investigate the efficiency and robustness of open-source tools such as Algoim [5](a library for quadrature on implicitly defined geometries) and Ginkgo [2](a library for isogeometric analysis on Boolean operations with a parametric description) with numerical examples computing the area defined by the interface and benchmarks for 2D elasticity problem using the open-source code GeoPDEs [7]. It is concluded that none of the two interface descriptions is preferable with respect to the quality of the integration. Thus, the choice of the interface type depends only on the studied problem and the available curve description, but not on the numerical aspects of the integration REFERENCES [2] P. Antolin, A. Buffa, and M. Martinelli. Isogeometric analysis on v-reps: First results. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 355:976–1002, 2019. doi: 10. 1016/j.cma.2019.07.015. [5] R. I. Saye. High-order quadrature on multi-component domains implicitly defined by multi-variate polynomials. Journal of Computational Physics, 448, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2021. 110720.