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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 14, 2021
Ansys, Inc., Canonsburg, PA (US);
Willem Jacobus Roux, Livermore, CA (US);
ANSYS, INC., Canonsburg, PA (US);
Abstract
A model representing a physical object in a shape optimization according to a design objective, and a control point for altering a shape of the physical object are received. The shape is defined by a set of nodes in the model. Sibling models are generated from the model according to a perturbation scheme. The control point is perturbed with respective perturbed values for the sibling models. Each sibling model contains nodal location changes for the nodes. The nodal location changes are determined based on a respective shape function formulated according to a respective perturbed value at the control point and one or more simulated physical behaviors of the model. The model is updated to have an optimal value for the control point. The optimal value is identified from a relationship according to the design objective. The relationship correlates a physical characteristic of the sibling models to the respective perturbed values.