Earl, On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 1:02:08 AM UTC-4, Earl Fairall wrote: > > Dear Baoyun, > > I too have been looking at this exact application. Building the mesh in > deal.ii is difficult. Deal.ii only has some very fundamental shapes which > require the use of boolean operations for increased complexity. This in > itself is not challenging. The challenge is that the mesh nodes must line > up exactly. This really requires a function which moves/merges/places nodes > manually (i'm not sure if Deal.ii has such a "healing" function) or else an > automatic mesh generator is required. I have, at least temporarily, given > up on Deal.ii meshing and started looking at Gmsh as a possible option for > automatic mesh generation, but I would rather stay within the deal.ii > framework if I can figure it out! > If you have a complex mesh, Gmsh is probably the way to go but if you have a mesh that is composed of simple geometries, you can use the Python wrappers to prototype the code (see here <https://github.com/dealii/dealii/blob/master/contrib/python-bindings/notebooks/tutorial-1.ipynb>). It's a lot faster to try something in Python and you can either dump the mesh and reload it in C++ or once you have a working code, you can rewrite the code in C++
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