On 17 Sep 2013, at 16:12, Michael Scheerer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Prof. Christophe Geuzaine,
>  
> I'm Michael Scheerer and we meet us during the last Gmesh workshop. I've a 
> short question about parametric nodes (instead of normal nodes).
> Is there any documentation about? It would be very help full. I've seen, that 
> in available Gmesh importer source code of scientists is only a "not in the 
> spec, not supported" exception, if a msh file contains parametric nodes stuff.
>  

Hi Michael,

There's no documentation yet. Currently the parametric information is stored 
like this:

node_num x y z entity_id < dimension parameter ... >

If entity_id == 0, no dimension and no parameters are given (there's no 
parametric info)

If entity_id != 0, the next integer is the dimension of the entity (== the 
number of parameters that follow), followed by the parameters.


> Another question is about mixed elements. Performance-wise it would be 
> helpful, if we could use non curved elements in cases, that there are nearly 
> no differences between straight looking  curved elements and possible non 
> curved “replacement” elements. Can you verify the statement, that such a 
> replacement is impossible, because of the fact, that if once one element is 
> curved, all other must be curved too, because of a domino effect?

It is indeed, unless we allow non-conformal meshes.

Cheers,

Christophe

>  
> Best regards,
> Michael Scheerer
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Dipl.-Ing. Michael Scheerer
> TU Darmstadt, Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair of Fluid Dynamics 
> Petersenstr. 30, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
> Phone: ++ 49 (0)6151-16-70960
> E-Mail: [email protected]
> Home-Page: http://www.fdy.tu-darmstadt.de/
>  
>  

-- 
Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine




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