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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2016
Siemens Industry Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Jonathan Makem, Cambridge, GB;
Nilanjan Mukherjee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Siemens Industry Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for element quality improvement in three-dimensional (3D) quadrilateral-dominant surface meshes. The system may include a processor configured to collapse a first plurality of edges of a plurality of quadrilateral elements that form a surface mesh of a 3D model, which edges have lengths that are shorter than a predetermined fraction of a minimum element edge length (MEL). Further, the processor may also move nodes connected to at least some of a second plurality of edges of the plurality of quadrilateral elements so as to have lengths that are at least the MEL. Also, the processor may adjust included angles and the warp of elements to be within predetermined limits. Further, the processor may collapse in the mesh all remaining edges of the plurality of quadrilateral elements that are shorter than the MEL to produce a modified surface mesh in which all quadrilaterals in the modified mesh have edge lengths that are at least the MEL.