I can think of several meanings for "characteristic length" (or "elements size" for that matter):
* The length of the mesh elements' edges, * the cubic root of the mesh elements' volume, * the diameter of the circumscribed sphere of the mesh elements, or * the radius of the circumscribed sphere of the mesh elements. There are probably more possibilities. What I want to know is whether gmsh follows a one consistent meaning for the characteristic length, and if yes, which one. (More accurately, I want to limit the edge sizes in the grid, an I suspect the characteristic length can be used for that, but I can't figure out how exactly. The obvious approach of "max characteristic length" == "max edge size" did not work, see my first mail.) Am Mon, 14. Feb 2011, 15:49:58 +0100 schrieb David Colignon: > do a search with the keyword "characteristic" on this page: > https://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html > > and/or see > http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Specifying-mesh-element-sizes I did, but I could not find an answer to the above question. The closest to an explanation of the meaning of the characteristic length was | Every meshing step is constrained by a “size field” (sometimes called | “characteristic length field”), which prescribes the desired size of the | elements in the mesh. (from section 1.2 "Mesh: finite element mesh generation"), which links the characteristic length to the mesh element size, but does not explain how the mesh element size is measured or how exactly it is linked to the characteristic length. Thanks, Jö. -- If God had intended Man to Smoke, He would have set him on Fire. -- fortune
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