Wookuen Shin and Gregory R. Miller and Pedro Arduino and Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein
Dynamic Meshing for Material Point Method Computations
1104 - 1112
2010
4
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International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10228
https://publications.waset.org/vol/44
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
This paper presents strategies for dynamically creating, managing and removing mesh cells during computations in the context of the Material Point Method (MPM). The dynamic meshing approach has been developed to help address problems involving motion of a finite size body in unbounded domains in which the extent of material travel and deformation is unknown a priori, such as in the case of landslides and debris flows. The key idea is to efficiently instantiate and search only cells that contain material points, thereby avoiding unneeded storage and computation. Mechanisms for doing this efficiently are presented, and example problems are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of dynamic mesh management relative to alternative approaches.
Open Science Index 44, 2010