An adaptive collocation method on implicit domains using weighted extended THB-splines

Abstract

Implicit representations possess many merits when dealing with geometries with certain properties, such as small holes, reentrant corners and other complex details. Truncated hierarchical B-splines (THB-splines) has recently emerged as a novel tool in many fields including design and analysis due to its local refinement ability. In this paper, we propose an adaptive collocation method with weighted extended THB-splines (WETHB-splines) on implicit domains. We modify the classification strategy for the WETHB-basis, and the centers of the supports of inner THB-splines on each level are chosen to be collocation points. We also use weighted collocation in the transition regions, in order to enrich information concerning the hierarchical basis. In contrast to the traditional WEB-collocation method, the proposed approach possesses much higher convergence rate. To show the efficiency and superiority of the proposed method, numerical examples in two and three dimensions are performed to solve Poisson's equations.