Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-05 Thread Giorgio Bornia
Awesome, thanks to all, I'll give you guys some feedback if I come up with something interesting. On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Derek Gaston wrote: > Cool link John, I may need something like that myself... I wonder if it > has a volume preserving meshing capability... > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 a

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-05 Thread Derek Gaston
Cool link John, I may need something like that myself... I wonder if it has a volume preserving meshing capability... On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:00 AM John Peterson wrote: > > > > On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:12 AM, Giorgio Bornia > wrote: > > > > My starting point is a fine mesh of a real geometry that w

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-05 Thread John Peterson
> On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:12 AM, Giorgio Bornia wrote: > > My starting point is a fine mesh of a real geometry that was generated by > someone else. > To be more precise, what I have is an STL geometry of a surface which is made > of rather fine triangles. > I have an algorithm to generate the m

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-05 Thread Geordie McBain
Le 5 mars 2016 19:12, "Giorgio Bornia" a écrit : > > My starting point is a fine mesh of a real geometry that was generated by > someone else. > To be more precise, what I have is an STL geometry of a surface which is > made of rather fine triangles. > I have an algorithm to generate the mesh in t

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-05 Thread Giorgio Bornia
My starting point is a fine mesh of a real geometry that was generated by someone else. To be more precise, what I have is an STL geometry of a surface which is made of rather fine triangles. I have an algorithm to generate the mesh in the volume enclosed by the surface, but this volume mesh will b

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-04 Thread Cody Permann
You can't coarsen beyond the original mesh. However can you approach the problem differently? I suggest you start from a coarse mesh, refine it several times up front to recover a suitable fine mesh, then run your simulation. Depending your needs that initial refinement can be uniform or it can ada

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-03-04 Thread Giorgio Bornia
I have an original mesh that I need to coarsen. So does the previous answer mean that I cannot process it with libmesh for that purpose? If so, are there any tools around that do that? Best, Giorgio On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:21 PM, John Peterson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:20 PM,

Re: [Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-02-10 Thread John Peterson
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Junchao Zhang wrote: > In libmesh, can adjacent elements be coarsened into new elements that do > not exist before? For example, a 2x2 grid (mesh) is refined into 4x4 grid. > Can the interior 4 elements be coarsened into one? > I feel it is mathematically allo

[Libmesh-users] Question on mesh coarsening

2016-02-10 Thread Junchao Zhang
In libmesh, can adjacent elements be coarsened into new elements that do not exist before? For example, a 2x2 grid (mesh) is refined into 4x4 grid. Can the interior 4 elements be coarsened into one? I feel it is mathematically allowed, but don't know if it is feasible in practice. --Junchao Zh