Dear Brian, The mesh is indeed curved - but the curved triangle edges are just represented as broken by default to speed up the graphical rendering. Increase
Tools->Options->Mesh->Aspect->High-order element subdivisions to improve the rendering. Christophe > On 22 May 2017, at 20:18, Brian Chubb <[email protected]> wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > I have a question in relation to higher order mesh generation. When I change > the mesh from order 1 to 2, it seems to refine the mesh instead of make it an > actual, second order curved mesh. Attached below are examples of what I am > having problems with. The first screenshot shows the mesh in first order, > second screenshot shows second order. Instead of curving the mesh around the > model for second order, it splits it into two linear elements. > > Can you tell me how I get curved mesh, instead of smaller linear increments? > > Thanks, > > Brian Chubb > > <image001.jpg> > <image002.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine Free software: http://gmsh.info | http://getdp.info | http://onelab.info _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
