WingMesh

WingMesh automates finite element model generation of insect wings from images to enable mechanical and comparative analyses of complex wing geometries.

Key Features:

• Automated Modeling: Uses the burning algorithm (BA) in digital image processing (DIP) to detect arbitrary domains and their subdomains, including discontinuities and multiple subdomains.
• Mesh Generation (Distmesh2D): Adapts Distmesh2D to generate detailed meshes for planar and three-dimensionally corrugated domains.
• Finite Element Modeling: Produces finite element (FE) models tailored to insect wing geometries for simulation-driven analysis.
• Cross-disciplinary Applicability: Applies to complex-shaped objects across earth sciences, engineering, mathematics, and physics where FE analysis is required.

Scientific Applications:

• Comparative wing morphology and mechanics: Enables rapid, consistent modeling for comparative studies of large numbers of insect wings.
• Mechanical behavior simulation: Supports FE simulations of the mechanical behavior of biological structures, specifically insect wings.
• FE analysis of complex geometries: Facilitates finite element analyses in disciplines requiring models of geometrically complex specimens.

Methodology:

Image-domain detection via the burning algorithm (BA) in digital image processing (DIP), mesh generation by an adapted Distmesh2D, and generation of finite element models for planar and three-dimensionally corrugated domains.