BTW boundary layer meshes are available in 2D and very soon in 3D … JF Le 11 déc. 2013 à 11:53, George Ntemos <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Dear Gmsh Development Team, > > > My name is George Ntemos and I am a PhD student in the Aeronautics Department > of Imperial College London. Our team is developing and applying CFD software, > using gmsh for high-order meshing purposes. > I am currently studying a flow case around a rod-aerofoil set-up and I've > been experiencing some problems with high-order meshing. More specifically, > the meshing algorithm fails to mesh in high order around the (spline-defined) > aerofoil profile. Please find attached a lightweight .geo file of my > configuration just for demonstration purposes. If one tries meshing this file > in 3d and for order > 1, gmsh will warn that, to my understanding, the > algorithm fails to properly converge at certain points, visibly resulting in > quite severe discrepancies for a few elements (curvilinear on). It also warns > that it cannot orient the normal for the two extruded surfaces of the rod > (cylinder) boundary layer. It is worth noting here that I am experiencing > none of the above problems when I am meshing in 2d. Since my 3d mesh is just > a simple extrusion, I would assume that extending to 3d is just a trivial > case of translating every operation along the 3rd dimension. I am of course > not particularly experienced in using gmsh however and I may very well be > missing something here. > Any help regarding these issues would be greatly appreciated. > Thank you for your time. > > Best regards, > George > <rod_aerofoil_3d_light.geo>_______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Jean-Francois Remacle Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) - Louvain School of Engineering Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC) Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME) Tel : +32-10-472352 -- Mobile : +32-473-909930
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