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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1999
Wim Schoenmaker, Genk, BE;
Wim Magnus, Waver, BE;
Abstract
A method, i.e. the so-called Cube-Assembling Method (CAM), is disclosed for locally refining a n-dimensional mesh in a predetermined domain, wherein the mesh comprises nodes and n−1 planes connecting these nodes thereby dividing said domain in n-dimensional first elements. By applying a mesh on a domain, the domain can be introduced in a computer aided design environment for optimization purposes. Concerning the mesh, one of the issues is to perform the optimization using the appropriate amount of nodes at the appropriate location The method of the present invention succeeds in adding or removing nodes locally. The assembling is done over the elements, being e.g. squares or cubes or hypercubes dependent of the dimension of the mesh. Like the finite-box method, the CAM method is easy to program, even in higher dimensions. However, the CAM method does not suffer from the restriction that only one line may terminate at the side of a box.