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FEA solver
QuickField's proprietary technology, the Geometric Decomposition Method™ overcomes the main drawbacks of conventional finite element analysis and provides you with an extremely efficient simulation tool. Our Geometric Decomposition Method™ achieves several goals: it optimizes the mesh distribution to produce a smooth transition from coarse to fine mesh sizes in a very short time, and it produces the domain decomposition needed for our powerful preconditioned conjugate gradient method. Our solving algorithm is exceptionally stable and can handle badly conditioned matrices arising from highly non-uniform meshes and varying material properties.
You may wonder, what is extremely efficient?
Well, how about generating a very large mesh for a problem with 2 million degrees of freedom and solving it, all within minutes, on a moderate PC, using less than 1GB of memory? The graph below compares the solution times versus the number of mesh nodes for a model with uniform mesh and material properties with the model, where mesh size and material permeability vary 4 orders of magnitude each.
These graphs were measured on two different computers. Colors on graphs correspond to the table below:
Non-uniform mesh |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.26GHz |
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 1.80GHz |
Uniform mesh |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.26GHz |
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 1.80GHz |
What does this give you?
The ultimate design tool! You can tinker with different design parameters as much as you want and make as many prototype runs as you need, to come up with the best possible design - all within a short time and without an expensive hardware system.
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