5.1 New approach for mesh smoothing

Product: Abaqus/CFD  

Benefits: The new implicit approach for mesh smoothing avoids extra memory allocation and improves performance for large-deformation analyses involving moving boundaries or deforming geometries.

Description: Similar to the explicit approach used in Abaqus/CFD, the mesh motion is governed by the linear elasticity equations. The algorithm is similar to the static stress analysis procedure in Abaqus/Standard. To avoid extra memory allocation for solving the linear elasticity equations, the matrix-free iteration strategy is used. The implicit approach is very useful in problems where large deformation might occur due to the mesh motion.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Guide

Abaqus Keywords Reference Guide