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  • Artificial Intelligence in Engineering
  • Mesh Generation Techniques

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  • The advancing front method (AFM) is a common technique for generating unstructured grids.
  • Traditional AFM has limitations in efficiency due to single-cell generation per step.
  • Improving mesh generation speed is crucial for complex simulations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, efficient, and automatic isotropic triangle generation technique.
  • To enhance mesh generation efficiency by introducing an artificial neural network (ANN) based advancing double-front method (ADFM).
  • To validate the effectiveness of the proposed ADFM through various test cases.

Main Methods:

  • Extraction and extension of mesh generation patterns from AFM to ADFM.
  • Generation of an initial isotropic triangular mesh and automatic extraction of a training dataset.
  • Training an ANN with preprocessed data to learn mesh generation patterns.
  • Utilizing dual fronts and adjacent point data as input for the ANN to predict optimal mesh patterns.
  • Updating advancing fronts based on ANN predictions until the domain is meshed.
  • Applying smoothing techniques to enhance the quality of generated grids.

Main Results:

  • The ANN accurately identifies and learns typical mesh generation patterns.
  • The developed ADFM demonstrates a 50% increase in mesh generation efficiency compared to traditional AFM.
  • Effectiveness validated through several typical test cases.

Conclusions:

  • The ANN-based ADFM is a highly effective technique for automatic isotropic triangle generation.
  • This method significantly improves the efficiency of unstructured mesh generation.
  • The approach offers a promising advancement for computational simulations requiring high-quality meshes.