Fast and Robust Design with Implicit Functions and Direct Simulation
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CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026
Jan Vandenbrande · nTop
Current Computer Aided Design systems excel in static detailed design but are too fragile and slow to support Design Exploration and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for conceptual and preliminary design. This talk introduces a new approach to modeling products that overcomes these shortcomings based on implicit functions popularized in the animation industry. The main benefits of the approach is that is responsive to the need to design and redesign products in days or weeks and not month or years because of absolute robustness to parametric change minimizing human intervation; lightning fast evaluations leveraging GPUs; and performing analysis directly from the representation w/o the need of human intervention to generate cumbersome and error prone meshes.
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