論文

査読有り
2014年9月8日

A voxel-based electrostatic field analysis for the virtual-human model Duke using the indirect boundary element method with a GPU-accelerated fast multipole method

WIT Transactions on Modelling and Simulation
  • S. Hamada

57
開始ページ
135
終了ページ
148
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
DOI
10.2495/BE370121
出版者・発行元
WITPress

The voxel-based indirect boundary element method (IBEM) using the Laplace-kernel fast multipole method (FMM) is capable of analysing relatively large-scale problems. Furthermore, the voxel-based IBEM is suitable for acceleration using graphics processing units (GPUs). A typical application of the IBEM is the analysis of electrostatic fields for virtual-human anatomical voxel models such as the model called Duke provided by the IT’IS Foundation. An important property of voxel-version Duke models is that they have different voxel sizes but the same structural feature. This property is useful for examining the O(N) and O(D2) dependencies of the calculation times and the amount of memory required by the FMM-IBEM, where N and D are the number of boundary elements and the reciprocal of the voxel side length, respectively. In this study, the O(N) and O(D2) dependencies of the voxel-based GPU-accelerated FMM-IBEM were confirmed by analysing Duke models with voxel side lengths of 5.0, 2.0, 1.0, and 0.5 mm. The finest model comprised 2.2 billion voxels with 61 million square boundary elements, and a linear equation solver on a personal computer with four GPUs required 1,276 s to obtain a solution. In addition, a technique is proposed to improve the convergence performance of the linear equation solver by considering the non-uniqueness of the electric potential, and its effectiveness is demonstrated.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2495/BE370121
URL
http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-modelling-and-simulation/57/29299
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.2495/BE370121
  • ISSN : 1743-355X
  • SCOPUS ID : 84907659342

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