Accelerating large-scale topology optimization: state-of-the-art and challenges

S Mukherjee, D Lu, B Raghavan, P Breitkopf… - … Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Large-scale structural topology optimization has always suffered from prohibitively high
computational costs that have till date hindered its widespread use in industrial design. The …

Accelerated topology optimization by means of deep learning

NA Kallioras, G Kazakis, ND Lagaros - Structural and Multidisciplinary …, 2020 - Springer
This study is focused on enhancing the computational efficiency of the solid isotropic
material with penalization (SIMP) approach implemented for solving topology optimization …

A parallel parameterized level set topology optimization framework for large-scale structures with unstructured meshes

H Lin, H Liu, P Wei - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In addition to the requirements of full-scale optimization, the adaptability to structures with
arbitrary geometries and complex boundary conditions is also important to topology …

FEniTop: a simple FEniCSx implementation for 2D and 3D topology optimization supporting parallel computing

Y Jia, C Wang, XS Zhang - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2024 - Springer
Topology optimization has emerged as a versatile design tool embraced across diverse
domains. This popularity has led to great efforts in the development of education-centric …

Evolutionary black-box topology optimization: Challenges and promises

D Guirguis, N Aulig, R Picelli, B Zhu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Black-box topology optimization (BBTO) uses evolutionary algorithms and other soft
computing techniques to generate near-optimal topologies of mechanical structures …

Fully parallel level set method for large-scale structural topology optimization

H Liu, Y Tian, H Zong, Q Ma, MY Wang, L Zhang - Computers & Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
To realize large-scale or high-resolution structural topology optimization design, a fully
parallel parameterized level set method with compactly supported radial basis functions …

Parallel BESO framework for solving high-resolution topology optimisation problems

Y **ong, ZL Zhao, H Lu, W Shen, YM **e - Advances in Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The bi-directional evolutionary structural optimisation (BESO) has attracted much interest in
recent decades. However, the high computational cost of the topology optimisation method …

GPU parallel strategy for parameterized LSM-based topology optimization using isogeometric analysis

Z **a, Y Wang, Q Wang, C Mei - Structural and Multidisciplinary …, 2017 - Springer
This paper proposes a new level set-based topology optimization (TO) method using a
parallel strategy of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and the isogeometric analysis (IGA) …

A GPU implementation of the PCG method for large-scale image-based finite element analysis in heterogeneous periodic media

PCF Lopes, AMB Pereira, EWG Clua… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Image-based physics simulations in heterogeneous media at a microscopic scale are a
growing trend in various fields within and around Scientific Computing. We consider the …

An open-source framework for large-scale transient topology optimization using PETSc

H Kristiansen, N Aage - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents a fully parallelized and open-source C++/MPI framework for large-scale
transient topology optimization using the density method. The framework comes with two …