TY - JOUR 
A1 - Martínez Frutos, Jesús
AU - Herrero Pérez, David
T1 - GPU acceleration for evolutionary topology optimization of continuum structures using isosurfaces
Y1 - 2017
SN - 0045-7949
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/7208
AB - Evolutionary topology optimization of three-dimensional continuum structures is a computationally demanding task in terms of memory consumption and processing time. This work aims to alleviate these constraints proposing a well-suited strategy for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing. Such a proposal adopts a fine-grained GPU instance of matrix-free iterative solver for structural analysis and an efficient GPU implementation for isosurface extraction and volume fraction calculation. The performance of the solving stage is evaluated using two preconditioning techniques, including the comparison with the sparse-matrix CPU implementation. The proposal is evaluated using topology optimization problems for real-world applications.
KW - Mecánica de Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras
KW - Evolutionary topology optimization
KW - Isosurfaces
KW - GPU computing
KW - Large scale
KW - Multigrid preconditioning
KW - 1210 Topología
LA - eng
PB - Pergamon Press
ER -