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The PDE Method generates a surface patch using a boundary-value approach. We describe how complicated surface shapes may be constructed by joining together a collection of PDE patches, either by joining adjacent patches at mutual boundaries or else by cutting a ‘hole’ in an existing surface, removing the patch of the surface which lies inside the hole, and using boundary conditions imposed at the edges of the hole to generate a second surface which meets the first at the hole boundaries. The particular object we use to illustrate the technique is an aircraft engine nacelle and pylon.
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Bloor, M.I.G., Wilson, M.J. (1998). The Shape Parametrisation of an Aircraft Engine Nacelle and Pylon. In: Farin, G., Bieri, H., Brunnett, G., De Rose, T. (eds) Geometric Modelling. Computing Supplement, vol 13. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6444-0_4
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