[Getdp] mesh aspect ratio
Christophe Geuzaine
c.geuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Wed Dec 15 02:41:29 CET 2004
Fabian Dortu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if highly distorded meshes (like quadrangle with a
> high aspect ratio 1:10) usually make sens with the finite element
> method? Is it possible to generate such a mesh with Gmsh (like for
> instance by specifying 2 different characteristic lengths)?
For quadrangles you can do that in Gmsh with extruded (see
tutorial/t3.geo) or transfinite (see tutorial/t6.geo) meshes. For
general geometries you can try the anisotropic algorithm (see
tutorial/t7.geo).
Christophe
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Christophe Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
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