Topology Optimization Using a Level Set Method with an Arbitrary Structured Mesh
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Abstract
Two approaches to three-dimensional structural topology optimization using level set parameterization with arbitrary finite-element meshes are presented.In both approaches the structural elasticity problem is solved on a fixed finite-element mesh.The shape sensitivities obtained from the solution of the structural problem are mapped to the orthogonal mesh in order to generate the corresponding advection velocities.The first approach superimposes a background Cartesian grid onto the finite element mesh.The level set function is defined on this Cartesian mesh with the advection velocities being taken as a weighted sum of the sensitivities at all nearby structural nodes within a prescribed radius.The second approach defines the level set function on a skewed structured mesh which is coincident with the finite element mesh.The Hamilton-Jacobi equation is then solved in this transformed mesh space and a Jacobian transformation is used create a one-to-one mapping between the structural elements and the nodes of the level set mesh.The two methods are evaluated and compared based upon the results of a benchmark problem involving three-dimensional topology optimization of an aircraft wing structure.The results indicate that the Jabobian mapping method offers a significant advantage over the superposition method, both in terms of convergence time as well as the objective value of the converged solution.
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