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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 38
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VII.10

Parallel Quadrilateral Subdomain Generation

J. Sziveri*, B. Cheng*, A. Bahreininejad*, J. Cai#, G. Thierauf# and B.H.V. Topping*

*Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
#Department of Civil Engineering, University of Essen, Essen, Germany

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J. Sziveri, B. Cheng, A. Bahreininejad, J. Cai, G. Thierauf, B.H.V. Topping, "Parallel Quadrilateral Subdomain Generation", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 313-325, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.38.7.10
Abstract
In this paper the Sub-domain Generation Method (SGM) previously developed for finite element meshes composed of triangular elements is generalised to account for meshes composed of arbitrary quadrilateral elements. A neural network of enhanced accuracy was developed to predict the number of quadrilaterals generated within each coarse quadrilateral element after refinement using an adaptive re-meshing procedure. Partitioning of the meshes was undertaken on the coarse mesh using a genetic algorithm to optimise the partitions considering both load balancing and interprocessor communication of the subsequent finite element analysis. A series of examples of increasing refinement were decomposed by considering a single coarse mesh of a fixed number of elements.

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