On 01 Oct 2014, at 22:23, Drew D <drewd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a composite stackup with alternating thin & thick layers. The thick > ones are are rougly 10x the thickness of the thin ones, and the aspect ratio > is on the order of 100:1. The mesh for something like this is always huge. Is > there a way to treat the thin layers as 2D shells, while keeping the thicker > ones 3D? The model is being exported as a STEP file and brought into Gmsh. >
Just include the surfaces in your model; Gmsh generates conformal meshes so this internal surface can then be treated as a thin layer in your solver. If you need duplicated nodes on the surface (which Gmsh normally does not generate), you can run Plugin(Crack) on the resulting mesh. > Thanks, > Drew > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > gmsh@geuz.org > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list gmsh@geuz.org http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
