CoMeT: An Integrated Computer Graphical Structural Zooming System. Phase 2

摘要

The project will develop an integrated, computer graphical design tool for the numerical solution of boundary problems over domains containing geometric features with widely varying scales. The central concept, as introduced here, is simple, and is coined 'structural zooming.' The concept approaches the problem of modeling a large complex object (the 'parent' object) by recursively analyzing smaller portions ('child' objects) of the parent. Geometrical and mesh refinements may be introduced for each successive analysis. At the conclusion of the Phase I research, the Structural Zooming technique had been implemented in a software tool called StressGraph (Panthaki and Gerstle, 1988b). Problems with the technique and the tool have been identified and corrected during Phase II.