Publications related to Computer representation of surfaces

Tool Developments in the OpenMC Code: Correlated Sampling and Transient Fission Matrix Approach Coupled to OpenFOAM

Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Elsa Merle

This article outlines the advancements made in broadening the application scope of the OpenMC neutron transport code to include thermohydraulic coupling and nuclear data uncertainty propagation. These developments primarily involve the incorporation of the ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

A method and system for enforcing smoothness constraints on surface meshes from a graph convolutional neural network

Pascal Fua, Pamuditha Udaranga Wickramasinghe

A method for enforcing smoothness constraints on surface meshes produced by a Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) including the steps of reading image data from a memory, the image data including two-dimensional image data representing a three-dimens ...

2023

A Full-Wave Reference Simulator for Computing Surface Reflectance

Mengqi Xia

Computing light reflection from rough surfaces is an important topic in computer graphics. Reflection models developed based on geometric optics fail to capture wave effects such as diffraction and interference, while existing models based on physical opti ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Stabilized isogeometric discretizations on trimmed and union geometries, and weak imposition of the boundary conditions for the Darcy flow

Riccardo Puppi

Modern manufacturing engineering is based on a ``design-through-analysis'' workflow. According to this paradigm, a prototype is first designed with Computer-aided-design (CAD) software and then finalized by simulating its physical behavior, which usually i ...

EPFL2022

Quadrature-free immersed isogeometric analysis

Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Thibaut Hirschler

This paper presents a novel method for solving partial differential equations on three-dimensional CAD geometries by means of immersed isogeometric discretizations that do not require quadrature schemes. It relies on a newly developed technique for the eva ...

SPRINGER2022

An a posteriori error estimator for isogeometric analysis on trimmed geometries

Annalisa Buffa, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Ondine Gabrielle Chanon

Trimming consists of cutting away parts of a geometric domain, without reconstructing a global parametrization (meshing). It is a widely used operation in computer-aided design, which generates meshes that are unfitted with the described physical object. T ...

2022

Synthesis and Analysis of 3D shapes with Geometric Deep Learning in Computer-Aided Engineering

Edoardo Remelli

In this thesis, we advocate that Computer-Aided Engineering could benefit from a Geometric Deep Learning revolution, similarly to the way that Deep Learning revolutionized Computer Vision. To do so, we consider a variety of Computer-Aided Engineering pr ...

EPFL2022

Cockroach: an open-source tool for point cloud processing in cad

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Petras Vestartas

In the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, the use of point cloud data is not a novelty. Usually employed to retrieve data for inspecting construction sites or retrofitting pre-existing buildings, sensors like LiDAR cameras have been k ...

Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)2022

Adaptive analysis-aware defeaturing

Ondine Gabrielle Chanon

Removing geometrical details from a complex domain is a classical operation in computer aided design for simulation and manufacturing. This procedure simplifies the meshing process, and it enables faster simulations with less memory requirements. However, ...

EPFL2022

Adaptive analysis-aware defeaturing

Annalisa Buffa, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Ondine Gabrielle Chanon

Removing geometrical details from a complex domain is a classical operation in computer aided design for simulation and manufacturing. This procedure simplifies the meshing process, and it enables faster simulations with less memory requirements. But depen ...

2022

Reduced order modelling of nonaffine problems on parameterized NURBS multipatch geometries

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Margarita Chasapi

This contribution explores the combined capabilities of reduced basis methods and IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA) in the context of parameterized partial differential equations. The introduction of IGA enables a unified simulation framework based on a single g ...

2022

Accurate isogeometric methods for trimmed shell structures

Luca Coradello

Shell elements derived from the Kirchhoff-Love theory have experienced a renaissance in the Finite Element community since the advent of isogeometric analysis. Despite numerous promising advancements in the field, several questions need to be addressed to ...

EPFL2021

3D Weaving with Curved Ribbons

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen, Yingying Ren, Samuel Jean Bernard Poincloux, Francis Julian Panetta, Christopher Brandt

Basket weaving is a traditional craft for creating curved surfaces as an interwoven array of thin, flexible, and initially straight ribbons. The three-dimensional shape of a woven structure emerges through a complex interplay of the elastic bending behavio ...

2021

Overlapping Multipatch Isogeometric Method With Minimal Stabilization

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Xiaodong Wei, Riccardo Puppi

We present a novel method for isogeometric analysis (IGA) to directly work on geometries constructed by Boolean operations including difference (i.e., trimming), union, and intersection. Particularly, this work focuses on the union operation, which involve ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2021

Anomalous interfacial dynamics of single proton charges in binary aqueous solutions

Aleksandra Radenovic, Evgenii Glushkov, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet, Ahmet Avsar, Miao Zhang

Our understanding of the dynamics of charge transfer between solid surfaces and liquid electrolytes has been hampered by the difficulties in obtaining interface, charge, and solvent-specific information at both high spatial and temporal resolution. Here, w ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Molecular simulations of interfacial systems: challenges, applications and future perspectives

Athanasios Nenes, Satoshi Takahama, Mária Lbadaoui-Darvas

We present a comprehensive review of methods and applications of molecular simulations of interfacial systems. We give a detailed overview of the main techniques and major challenges in the following aspects of solid and fluid surfaces: adsorption at solid ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023

Computational Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen, Francis Julian Panetta

We present a computational inverse design method for a new class of surface-based inflatable structure. Our deployable structures are fabricated by fusing together two layers of inextensible sheet material along carefully selected curves. The fusing curves ...

2021

Shape Reconstruction by Learning Differentiable Surface Representations

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Shaifali Parashar, Jan Bednarík, Erhan Gündogdu

Generative models that produce point clouds have emerged as a powerful tool to represent 3D surfaces, and the best current ones rely on learning an ensemble of parametric representations. Unfortunately, they offer no control over the deformations of the su ...

IEEE2020

Hierarchically refined isogeometric analysis of trimmed shells

Luca Coradello, Alessandro Reali, Davide D'Angella

This work focuses on the study of several computational challenges arising when trimmed surfaces are directly employed for the isogeometric analysis of Kirchhoff-Love shells. To cope with these issues and to resolve mechanical and/or geometrical features o ...

SPRINGER2020

A Minimal Stabilization Procedure for Isogeometric Methods on Trimmed Geometries

Annalisa Buffa, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Riccardo Puppi

Trimming is a common operation in computer aided design and, in its simplest formulation, consists in removing superfluous parts from a geometric entity described via splines (a spline patch). After trimming, the geometric description of the patch remains ...

2020