REDESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE PAVING ALGORITHM APPLIED TO ELECTROMAGNETIC TOOLS (Invited Paper)
Javier Moreno, Ma Jesús Algar, Iván González, M.F. Cátedra · Progress In Electromagnetics Research B · 2011
Abstract—To study any electromagnetic system, the geometry model must be discretized into elements with an appropriate size for the working frequency. The discretization of a system must be transparent to the user of electromagnetic computing tools. A mesher is presented based on the paving algorithm. The algorithm has been modified to allow triangular elements and has been accelerated by distributing the load on multiple processors simultaneously. Also, a multilevel mode has been implemented. With this tool, any geometry defined by NURBS (Non Uniform Rational B-Spline) surfaces can be decomposed into triangular and quadrangular curved elements. 1.