A Fast Eddy-current Non Destructive Testing Finite Element Solver in Steam Generator
This work addresses the computational bottleneck of simulating eddy-current testing in steam generators, but the results are incremental and lack quantitative benchmarks.
The paper presents a finite element method for eddy-current non-destructive testing in steam generators, using parallel computing to handle large 3D discretizations. The technique achieves speedup with good efficiency, though no concrete numbers are provided.
In this paper we present an advanced numerical method to simulate a real life challenging industrial problem that consists of the non-destructive testing in steam generators. We develop a finite element technique that handles the big data numerical set of systems arising when a discretization of the eddy-current equation in three dimensional space is made. Using a high performance technique, our method becomes fully efficient. We provide numerical simulations using the software Freefem++ which has a powerful tool to handle finite element method and parallel computing. We show that our technique speeds up the simulation with a good efficiency factor.