Questions tagged [mesh-generation]
The generation of a set of interconnected geometric objects that approximate a desired domain or region in euclidean space.
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Connectivity of octree as grid
What is the algorithm which transforms the octree/quadtree into a grid? i.e, getting the adjacency or connectivity between the cells in order to be able to perform interpolation, gradient,...etc. I am ...
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Is there any reliable free/open source tool for structured mesh smoothing?
I have been using Pointwise for grid generation and found the quality of smoothed grids to be stunning.
I am not aware of any free/open source alteranative that offers the same capabilities for ...
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Convolute a gaussian kernel with a large array of off-grid centroids without looping? (how to make "A Thousand (Gaussian) Points of Light" )
For a finite object size diffraction simulator, I need to generate arrays which are the sum of thousands of instances of a Gaussian (or other) 2D kernel at centroids that will not fall in any ...
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Finite Volume on Cubed Sphere
The US weather model uses an uncommon (?) discretization called 'Finite Volume on Cubed Sphere'.
To avoid the singularities that occur at the poles when using lat/lon discretization, they instead ...
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Mesh aspect ratio issue with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)
I am working on implementation of AMR for my finite volume code. Let me use a 2-D mesh to describe my question.
Starting with SINGLE initial cell (let the mesh refine level k = 0) as a root of a quad-...
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Generate stl or iges using of a 3D parametric surface defined piecewise-defined function
I need to generate a 3D surface defined by a piecewise function in stl or iges format. I tried using Salome software, but does not generate a good surface on corners. May you suggest me a free ...
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Parametric surface in 3D
I want to create a mesh for a 3D surface with coordinates defined by a parametric function. Is it possible to define this mesh using Gmsh? If it is not possible, what free software do you recommend me?...
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Renumbering the nodes for quadratic basis functions for a 2D domain
I have a simple triangulation for a 2D domain, described by the connectivity matrix $T$ and by the point matrix $P$.
For didactic purposes, I assembled the stiffness matrix for $-\Delta u = f$ by ...
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Visualize a mesh from list of 3D point and faces
I have a list of vertices and faces. Now, I want to create a mesh using the given points and faces list and visualize it. Also, I want to play with the mesh by adding an extra point on the faces. Can ...
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OpenFOAM: Using icoFoam after snappyHexMesh
I am trying to run icoFoam through a geometry made by Gmsh. For meshing, I have used snappyHexMesh. For that I had the geometry made with Gmsh by someone else and converted to a *.stl file.
The ...
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Open-source Hexahedral meshing tools
I'm looking for an open-source automatic meshing tool or library able to generate full or dominant hexahedral mesh starting from a provided arbitrary model i.e. a surface triangular mesh stored in STL ...
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Meshing surface of a sphere with a subdomain
I am trying to build a triangle mesh of the surface of a sphere which also includes a subdomain defined by a 'polygon'. Here is a successful example (subdomain defined by the red dots):
Note that the ...
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Hi I am trying to model a 2D Lug angle using Gmsh 4.6. How can I combine transfinite quad and regular full quad meshes in the following geo file?
I need transfinite mesh a small section of the bolt hole to insert a crack. However, The transfinite mesh and regular full quad mesh seem being incompatible and throwing errors. How can I combine ...
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For traditional FEM and FVM, why can't we use mesh to represent geometry and use the mesh which represent the geometry to do the computation directly?
Isogeometric analysis [1] has the advantage of integrating geometric and mesh models using NURBS or Spline. At the same time, I would like to ask a question to my friends: for traditional FEM and FVM, ...
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Can the mesh generation methods in FVM and FEM be totally based on the knowledge of the mesh generation theory in computer graphics?
The main references of mesh generation methods in computer graphics (CG) I found are discrete Differential Geometry [1] and a famous book "Polygon Mesh Processing" [2], while the "...
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Flux sign and face normal confusion in finite volume method
I implemented a solver for the 2D steady-state heat equation (without heat generation and homogeneous material) $\nabla. (k\nabla T) = 0$, using finite volume method, however, I am having some ...
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Surface mesh from labeled 3D points
I'm trying to figure out how to create a surface mesh from a set of labeled 3D points. The 3D object could be something like part of a cave system or asteroid where there would be parts of the surface ...
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Partial differential equation FEM application
I have a PDE which looks like Helmholtz wave equation on one dimensional domain.
$$\dfrac{d^2u(x)}{dx^2}+\pi^2u(x)=f(x)$$
where $-\infty <x<\infty $
Also, $f(x)= 1$ for $-0.25<x<0.25$, I ...
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Determining the voxels between two boundary surfaces
Issue description
I am working on human brain tACS simulations where I have the models of the skin, skull, csf, brain and ventricles in STL format. The shape does not matter and there are no ...
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Mesh partition quality
I am working on static FE mesh partitioning and in order to achieve a good quality partitioning I want to know how to drecrease interprocessor communication by increasing the connectivity of elements ...
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Why addCylinder function not respecting the given coordinates?
I tried to generate 3 very simple cylinders, each other connected to it end, however the cylinder get connected to an unexistent point in space as the image shows:
It was supposed to each segment be ...
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Gmsh for .inp file
How do I get an .inp file from Gmsh? I need to create a simple geometry and mesh it and define the boundary conditions in Gmsh and export it as an ...
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Creating a mesh around an 1-D line to form a 2-D object
Given the following code, how can I perform a mesh generation around the line, to make a 2D form in GMSH API? Extrude or Mirror ...
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Minimum number of elements (mesh size) for electromagnetic simulation
Does someone have a reference for the minimum number of elements (or maximum mesh size) for electromagnetic simulations where a mathematical or numerical explanation is given?
I have found several ...
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What are the alternatives for ABAQUS in generating an *.inp file from a CAD model
ABAQUS gives a .inp file (in pre-processing stage) where the information with regard to the preprocessed model is defined, information such as geometry, mesh type, number of elements, boundary ...
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Why FVM can handle unstructured meshes while FDM cannot?
How come Finite Volume Method(FVM) handle the unstructured meshes and Finite difference Method cannot, whereas in FVM to approximate the fluxes at the boundary we use the central differencing?
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How to find out the difference between a structured and unstructured mesh using the file containing the mesh information?
I have two different mesh files (both are .inp files obtained from Abaqus) that represent the exact same geometries with the same boundary conditions, etc. The only difference is that one of them is ...
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Filling a volume with generalised polyhedra
Given a volume (say, some polyhedron), I need to fill it with smaller polyhedra, such that the space is filled as much as possible. The constraints and relaxations are:
(0) For a computation ...
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stretch elliptic mesh to fit a circle
I've generated a 2D O-mesh around an airfoil. Unfortunately, the mesh O shape is not a perfect circle as you can see in the figure below (in the figure I plotted only the mesh nodes in blue). The red ...
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Gmsh meshes flat faces incorrectly for cylindrical faces
I have some C++ code that generates meshes from step files and then analyses these meshes for visibility of the faces from different viewing directions. I currently use CGAL but I would like to switch ...
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Is it possible to remesh with gmsh?
I am currently working on remeshers for my simulations (academic purpose) and I try to find a method to remesh previous meshes using Gmsh.
The first mesh (normalMesh.msh) was created using a .geo file ...
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Isosurface extraction when you know the derivatives
I have a complicated equation that defines a shape in 3D, and I would like to generate a surface mesh. The shape is defined by an isosurface, i.e. the function is positive inside the shape and ...
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Duplicate Surface Meshes in different Gmsh files
My objective is to get a conformal surface mesh between two geometries meshed independently in different files.
By example, I can start with a simple cube in one .geo file and mesh this geometry.
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Is there any fundamental difference between meshing for FEM, FVM and FDM?
I am a novice to the field of computational science and have just started studying the FDM and FEM (haven't started on FVM yet). While trying the understand the subject I got this question and trying ...
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Metis: how to use and tutorial recommendation
I am new to METIS and trying to use it in my fortran code. I read the manual online. But still, I am not sure about how to implement it my code. I tried the test cases in the graphs directory. For ...
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Creating 3D Mesh from stl files with gmsh
After long hours of searching for an answer I thought it might be better to ask the community.
The problem I have is that I need to convert STL files to mesh files. I know that I therefore need to ...
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Definition of Lagrange nodes in Gmsh
When gmsh uses higher-order tetrahedral elements, there is an underlying Lagrange basis used to specify the map from reference space to the element. I'm trying to load a gmsh mesh of 3rd degree ...
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How can I coarsen a mesh in Gmsh when 'Mesh options' include 'Refine by splitting' but nothing about coarsening?
I am new to Gmsh and I am having trouble creating a circle with a coarse mesh. I use
Geometry->Elementary entities->Add->Circle
to create the geometry ...
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Load the mesh file with boundary marks
I'm want to load a mesh from a file, generated by triangle, and I want to use the boundary marks of its nodes (boundary marks of the file). It is possible?
Also, I can change the mesh generator (or ...
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How to generate a face list from vertices?
I have a little background in writing toy finite volume CFD codes. In 2D Cartesian scenarios, I typically take $x_{\min}$, $x_{\max}$, $y_{\min}$, $y_{\max}$, and the number of points in $x$ and $y$ ...
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Gmsh for 3D volume with inclusions [closed]
In an attempt to create three-dimensional volumes with inclusions in Gmsh I stumble upon a problem which was non-existent in the two-dimensional case.
I'm using the OpenCASCADE geometry kernel ...
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Is there any open-source code for a hybrid 2D mesh (triangles and quadrilaterals)?
The question is pretty much the title. Note that I have lots of experience using open-source meshing tool, e.g. Gmsh and OpenFoam blockMesh & snappyHexMesh. Nevertheless, I have no idea on how to ...
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Connectivity matrix in Finite Element Method in Triangular elements
Imagine a simple triangular base mesh in finite element method with an unknown number of elements (varying by the user). How can connectivity matrix be coded to be generated automatically?
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3D contour mesh computation
I have the value of a function in three dimensions, $f(x, y, z)$, which varies smoothly.
I would like to compute a 3D mesh where $f(x, y, z)$ has a particular value.
Are there algorithms to do this? ...
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Efficient initial identification of solid or liquid domains for a block structured Cartesian grid generation system
INTRO
Within the last 5 days I was able to generate a block structured Cartesian grid
generation system with a combination of Fortran,C++ and Python.
I am running intersection tests of the ...
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Unstructured mesh vs hybrid structured/unstructured for numerical simulations
While answering one of the questions on meshing process, I encountered a lack of understanding on my end for the comparison of the mesh quality.
First, consider an unstructured mesh created in GMSH ...
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Creating a proper quad-mesh in GMSH for an "I"-shaped geometry
I'm trying to make a 2-D quad-only mesh of an "I"-shaped cross-section, with elements of size 5. So far I've managed to make it quad only, but some elements are very distorted when they shouldn't be. ...
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A difference running Gmsh in command line and in GUI for 3-D mesh generation [closed]
In Gmsh, I have a test.geo file. The question is:
if I run gmsh -3 test.geo in the command line, I get the below error.
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Structural mechanics simulation using FLUENT compared to analytical solution
This is a continuation of my previous post, 1D analytical solution vs FEM solution for a bar under compression. For some reason, I cannot comment in it.
The analytical solution to the 1-D static ...
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Gmsh exporting wrong mesh DATA [closed]
so hopefully I'll be using gmsh to make meshes out of 2-D cross sections with o thickness. I tried to make a structured mesh with quad elements of a rectangular ...
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