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Area of Science:

  • Computational geometry
  • Materials science
  • Computer-aided engineering

Background:

  • Existing methods struggle with multi-material domains and non-manifold boundaries.
  • Previous work focused on single-material domains with manifold boundaries.
  • Generating high-quality meshes for heterogeneous materials is a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an automatic and efficient approach for constructing unstructured 3D meshes for composite domains with heterogeneous materials.
  • To address the challenge of non-manifold boundaries arising from material interfaces.
  • To enable simultaneous meshing of multiple material regions directly from volumetric data.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced 'material change edges' to identify interfaces between different materials.
  • Developed a novel method for calculating minimizer points at non-manifold nodes shared by multiple materials.
  • Utilized an octree-based isocontouring method adapted for multi-material scenarios.
  • Employed edge-contraction and smoothing for tetrahedral mesh quality, and pillowing/geometric flow for hexahedral mesh quality.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated unstructured tetrahedral and hexahedral meshes for composite domains with non-manifold boundaries.
  • Demonstrated simultaneous and automatic meshing of all material regions while conforming to boundaries.
  • Achieved improved mesh quality through dedicated optimization techniques for both mesh types.
  • Validated the method with several application results for multi-material mesh generation.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method provides an efficient and automatic solution for generating high-quality 3D meshes in complex multi-material composite domains.
  • The novel handling of material change edges and non-manifold nodes is crucial for accurate representation of heterogeneous materials.
  • This approach advances the state-of-the-art in computational meshing for advanced material applications.