TY - JOUR
T1 - Geometrically accurate, efficient, and flexible quadrature techniques for the tetrahedral finite cell method
AU - Stavrev, Atanas
AU - Nguyen, Lam H.
AU - Shen, Ruyi
AU - Varduhn, Vasco
AU - Behr, Marek
AU - Elgeti, Stefanie
AU - Schillinger, Dominik
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - We illustrate the importance of geometrically accurate volume quadrature for obtaining optimal accuracy with non-boundary-fitted finite element discretizations, when the problem domain is defined by sharp boundaries. We consider the tetrahedral finite cell method (TetFCM) and replace its recursive subdivision based integration approach with geometrically accurate quadrature rules that emanate from higher-order geometric parametrizations of cut tetrahedral elements. The element-wise parametrization procedure relies on the identification of the intersection topology and a series of higher-order mappings based on Lagrange polynomials. We demonstrate with several 3D examples that geometrically faithful local parametrization ensures optimal accuracy, while significantly reducing the number of quadrature points with respect to recursive subdivision. On the other hand, we highlight the strength of subdivision quadrature in the context of a patient-specific workflow for the simulation-based performance analysis of coupled bone/implant configurations. In particular, we show that accuracy, flexibility and computational efficiency of the TetFCM critically depend on flexibly applying the two different quadrature variants for fuzzy imaging data and sharp boundary representations, respectively.
AB - We illustrate the importance of geometrically accurate volume quadrature for obtaining optimal accuracy with non-boundary-fitted finite element discretizations, when the problem domain is defined by sharp boundaries. We consider the tetrahedral finite cell method (TetFCM) and replace its recursive subdivision based integration approach with geometrically accurate quadrature rules that emanate from higher-order geometric parametrizations of cut tetrahedral elements. The element-wise parametrization procedure relies on the identification of the intersection topology and a series of higher-order mappings based on Lagrange polynomials. We demonstrate with several 3D examples that geometrically faithful local parametrization ensures optimal accuracy, while significantly reducing the number of quadrature points with respect to recursive subdivision. On the other hand, we highlight the strength of subdivision quadrature in the context of a patient-specific workflow for the simulation-based performance analysis of coupled bone/implant configurations. In particular, we show that accuracy, flexibility and computational efficiency of the TetFCM critically depend on flexibly applying the two different quadrature variants for fuzzy imaging data and sharp boundary representations, respectively.
KW - Higher-order geometric parametrization
KW - Non-boundary-fitted discretization
KW - Numerical integration
KW - Tetrahedral finite cell method
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cma.2016.07.041
DO - 10.1016/j.cma.2016.07.041
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84982175125
SN - 0045-7825
VL - 310
SP - 646
EP - 673
JO - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
JF - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
ER -