Joakim Sandström wrote:
Dear sir
I have become a fond user of gmsh when creating geometries for thermal
calculations. I’ve run in to trouble in these calculations when the
temperature gradient is very steep with a mesh that is to coarse. The
problem is that I do not need a fine mesh anywhere else but close to the
certain boundaries where the temperature gradient is steep. Creating a
fine mesh in the whole volume demands to much computational time. Is
there a way to separately specify the grid size within different
physical groups?
Is there also a way to specify which types of element to be generated? I
would like to be able to produce only prisms or hexahedrons. I’m using
Gmsh as a mesh generator for SAFIR (a thermal and mechanical FEM-solver
for fire exposed structures developed at University of Liege) and it can
only understand prisms and hexahedrons in the 3-D case.
Hi,
The 2D structured algorithms (transfinite and extrusion) generate triangles by default, but quadrangles can be obtained
by using the Recombine commands (see 6.3.2 Structured grids, and 6.3.3 Miscellaneous). The 3D structured algorithms
generate tetrahedra, hexahedra, prisms and pyramids, depending on the type of the surface meshes they are based on.
see
http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh-full.html#SEC40
tutorial n° 3
http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh-full.html#SEC66
and demos/hex.geo
Cheers,
Dave
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David Colignon, Ph.D.
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Best regards
Joakim Sandström
PhD student at Luleå University of Technology
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