Abstract
This paper describes a performance evaluation of a newly-developed ubiquitous learning support system for isogeometric analysis using Android-based mobile devices. Isogeometric analysis seems harder to understand than the conventional FEA because of its complex basis functions, NURBS, which were originally developed for representing free-form surfaces in CAD systems. The proposed system helps users understand isogeometric analysis and do analyses with it anytime and anywhere. The system, using Android-based mobile devices, consists of three subsystems : a NURBS graph display system, a 3D visualization system and a parallel isogeometric analysis system. In this paper, the proposed system are described and the drawing and computational performances of the latter two subsystems are tested in detail through sample analyses.
