Kumara, Kirana P (2014) A Study of Speed of the Boundary Element Method as applied to the Realtime Computational Simulation of Biological Organs. In: Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements, 12 (2). pp. 1-25.
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Abstract
In this work, possibility of simulating biological organs in realtime using the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is investigated. Biological organs are assumed to follow linear elastostatic material behavior, and constant boundary element is the element type used. First, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is used to speed up the BEM computations to achieve the realtime performance. Next, instead of the GPU, a computer cluster is used. Results indicate that BEM is fast enough to provide for realtime graphics if biological organs are assumed to follow linear elastostatic material behavior. Although the present work does not conduct any simulation using nonlinear material models, results from using the linear elastostatic material model imply that it would be difficult to obtain realtime performance if highly nonlinear material models that properly characterize biological organs are used. Although the use of BEM for the simulation of biological organs is not new, the results presented in the present study are not found elsewhere in the literature.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements |
| Publisher: | Scholarly Communications Center - Rutgers University Libraries |
| Additional Information: | Anyone is free to distribute the published version of the paper since it is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License". Present paper is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License" which may be slightly different from the "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License". |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2014 10:07 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2014 10:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/48399 |
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