Computational modelling for engineering analysis

摘要

This invention concerns a computational engineering modelling tool (10) having a point generation module (12) arranged to read geometry data representing a domain (24) to be modelled. The point generation module (12) also generates point data for the domain having multiple boundary points (26) located on a boundary of the domain and multiple further points (28) spaced from the boundary within the domain (24). A point mutation module (14) processes the point generation module (12) output and generates automatically a plurality of alternative point data definitions for the domain in which the location of at least one point differs between each of the alternative point definitions. A blocking module (16) discretizes the domain (24) by creating multiple geometric blocks over the domain using a computational geometric operator such that each point (26, 28) represents a vertex of at least one block. The blocking module outputs a discretized computational model of the domain (24) and the tool scores the discretized computational model according to a geometric attribute of the blocks.