FEA Solver
QuickField's proprietary Geometric Decomposition Method™ — a mesh of ten million elements runs on an ordinary workstation.
QuickField's proprietary technology — the Geometric Decomposition Method™ — overcomes the main drawbacks of conventional finite element analysis, delivering an extremely efficient simulation tool. The Geometric Decomposition Method achieves several goals at once: it optimizes the mesh distribution in a very short time, producing a smooth transition from coarse to fine mesh sizes, and it provides the domain decomposition needed for an efficient preconditioned conjugate gradient method. The solving algorithm is remarkably stable, able to handle the ill-conditioned matrices produced by highly non-uniform meshes and varying material properties.
2D Solver Benchmark
| Mesh size | Meshing (min) | Solving (min) |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 | 1 | 1.5 |
| 4,200,000 | 2.2 | 5.5 |
| 6,200,000 | 2.5 | 8 |
| 10,000,000 | 4 | 12 |
Timing covers only meshing and solving; it excludes writing the problem file to disk and starting the postprocessor. Test machine: Dell Precision T5500 (Xeon CPU @ 2.4 GHz, 8 GB RAM), Windows 7 64-bit.
What does this mean in practice? A design tool that's genuinely usable — you can freely adjust design parameters and run as many trial designs as you need to get the best possible result in a short time, without needing expensive hardware.