Analysis and Generation of Quality Polytopal Meshes with Applications to the Virtual Element Method

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dc.contributor.authorSorgente, Tommaso
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-02T17:52:36Z
dc.date.available2023-01-02T17:52:36Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-31
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the concept of the quality of a mesh, the latter being intended as the discretization of a two- or three- dimensional domain. The topic is interdisciplinary in nature, as meshes are massively used in several fields from both the geometry processing and the numerical analysis communities. The goal is to produce a mesh with good geometrical properties and the lowest possible number of elements, able to produce results in a target range of accuracy. In other words, a good quality mesh that is also cheap to handle, overcoming the typical trade-off between quality and computational cost. To reach this goal, we first need to answer the question: “How, and how much, does the accuracy of a numerical simulation or a scientific computation (e.g., rendering, printing, modeling operations) depend on the particular mesh adopted to model the problem? And which geometrical features of the mesh most influence the result?” We present a comparative study of the different mesh types, mesh generation techniques, and mesh quality measures currently available in the literature related to both engineering and computer graphics applications. This analysis leads to the precise definition of the notion of quality for a mesh, in the particular context of numerical simulations of partial differential equations with the virtual element method, and the consequent construction of criteria to determine and optimize the quality of a given mesh. Our main contribution consists in a new mesh quality indicator for polytopal meshes, able to predict the performance of the virtual element method over a particular mesh before running the simulation. Strictly related to this, we also define a quality agglomeration algorithm that optimizes the quality of a mesh by wisely agglomerating groups of neighboring elements. The accuracy and the reliability of both tools are thoroughly verified in a series of tests in different scenarios.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTommaso Sorgente has been financially supported by the ERC Project CHANGE, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 694515).en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://dx.doi.org/10.15167/sorgente-tommaso_phd2022-08-31
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/2633258
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Genoa, Department of Mathematicsen_US
dc.titleAnalysis and Generation of Quality Polytopal Meshes with Applications to the Virtual Element Methoden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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