Development of a prototype for an advanced 3D mesh morphing tool for CAE applications

开发用于 CAE 应用的高级 3D 网格变形工具原型

• 批准号: 720303
• 金额: $ 16.05万
• 依托单位: ICHROME LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720303
• 关键词: Development; prototype; advanced; 3D; mesh

The goal of the project is to develop a prototype for an advanced 3D mesh morphingtool—named Shaper—for computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications.Shaper will allow the user to efficiently re-shape and re-size three-dimensional computer models used for structural and fluid-dynamics simulations, which are extensively used during the design phase of new products in the aerospace, automotive and renewable energy industry.Shaper will provide a novel approach to mesh morphing by combining classic morphingtechniques with innovative algorithms recently developed in the computer graphics field, thus resulting in a more powerful tool than similar products already available in the market.A key aspect of Shaper will be its open architecture: the implemented mesh morphingtechniques are completely independent from the underlying computer model used and hence the product will be able to support any of the structural and computational fluid-dynamics softwares available on the market. In fact, through the use of public application programming interfaces, end users can easily integrate the software into their existing engineering designprocedure, which, in turn, will result in a significant reduction of the development time of a new product and hence of project costs. This is extremely beneficial to the design cycle of a new product, especially when the complexity of the project requires a computationally intensive, time-consuming, iterative optimisation of the initial design.

该项目的目标是为计算机辅助工程（CAE）应用开发一个名为shaper的高级3D网格变形工具的原型。Shaper将允许用户有效地重新塑造和重新调整用于结构和流体动力学模拟的三维计算机模型，这些模型在航空航天，汽车和可再生能源行业的新产品设计阶段广泛使用。Shaper将通过将经典的变形技术与计算机图形学领域最近开发的创新算法相结合，提供一种新颖的网格变形方法，从而产生比市场上已有的类似产品更强大的工具。Shaper的一个关键方面将是它的开放架构：实现的网格变形技术完全独立于所使用的底层计算机模型，因此该产品将能够支持市场上可用的任何结构和计算流体动力学软件。事实上，通过使用公共应用程序编程接口，最终用户可以很容易地将软件集成到他们现有的工程设计过程中，这反过来又会大大减少新产品的开发时间，从而减少项目成本。这对新产品的设计周期非常有益，特别是当项目的复杂性需要对初始设计进行计算密集、耗时和迭代优化时。