Field Precision Achieves Unprecedented Speed in 3D Finite-element Software

A prevailing appearance of three-dimensional finite-element software is that run times may extend from hours to days. Field Precision LLC has developed atypical software technology to accomplish accurate after-effects for real-world architecture problems in minutes. High-speed operation is the aftereffect of a aggregate of new approaches and accepted sense:

-- The MetaMesh affairs has the different adequacy to accomplish structured, conformal meshes. Such meshes amalgamate the accurateness of conformal elements with the ability of austere analytic adjustment area aspect relationships are bent by basis operations.

-- The band-aid programs are accounting absolutely in avant-garde FORTRAN, a accent incomparable for austere amount crunching.

-- The architecture of the programs anxiously avoids stratagems like acquisitive programing that accomplish coding easier but add computational overhead.

-- Instead of application ambiguous libraries, algebraic routines are hand-coded for top efficiency. The programs are anxiously analyzed to abolish redundancies and to abbreviate deejay access.

-- The band-aid techniques are called to absorb the atomic operations and to accomplish minimum demands on anamnesis (e.g., the scalar reduced-potential adjustment for 3D alluring acreage calculations).

The end aftereffect of this accomplishment is to accomplish three-dimensional simulations practical, even on accustomed claimed computers. The achievement can be illustrated with an electrostatic calculation, the injector for the DARHT Accelerator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The claiming is to archetypal the abounding aggregate of a 6.3 m top exhaustion alcove while accomplishing acceptable accurateness to account carriage of a space-charge-limited relativistic electron axle above an celerity gap. For a astute test, the adding was not performed on an expensive, optimized workstation. Instead, we acclimated an off-the-shelf $600 HP computer (Windows Vista 64, Intel Core2 Duo E8400 at 3.00 GHz). The cobweb (with 1.75 actor elements) took 18 abnormal to actualize with MetaMesh. The finite-element band-aid with the HiPhi affairs complex the bearing and cast antagonism of a set of abutting to 2 actor bulge equations. The absolute run time was beneath 5 account (287 seconds), almost time to get a cup of coffee. With such abbreviate run times, users accept the breadth to do what-if abstracts and to investigate a added ambit of ambit and approaches.

Field Precision has banal accelerated appliance bales for high-voltage engineering, electromagnet design, electron and ion guns, RF and bake technology, X-ray sources and permanent-magnet devices.

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Field Precision LLC has created easy-to-use 2D and 3D simulation software for claimed computers back 1989. Application areas cover electrostatics, abiding magnets, charged-particle devices, bake equipment, biomedical engineering and X-ray technology. The aggregation is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our educational texts on answerable atom physics and technology are in use by over 30,000 acceptance and researchers. For abundant advice (customer lists, analysis projects and publications), amuse see http://www.fieldp.com/company.html.

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Dr. Stanley Humphries
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