[Gmsh] isotropic 3D algorithm fails

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Ondrej Certik wrote:
> Thank you very much for your answer and your time.
> 
> It works well. I will probably have a poster at a summer school and I
> would like to cite you or give you a credit - do you have some preferred
> way of doing that?

I usually use

@misc{gmsh,
   author = "C. Geuzaine and J.-F. Remacle",
   title = "{Gmsh}: a three-dimensional finite element mesh
            generator with built-in pre- and post-processing
            facilities",
   note = "\url{http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/}"
}

Cheers,

Christophe



> 
> Ondrej
> 
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:49:10PM -0700, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> 
>>Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>part of a cylinder is a structured grid, the other part is made of 
>>>unstructured
>>>grid. The structured part meshes OK, the unstructured doesn't mesh at
>>>all, but gmsh doesn't complain about anything. 
>>>
>>>Does anybody know where the problem could be?
>>>
>>
>>Hi Ondrej - There are some quads in the boundary mesh of the volume
>>that you are trying to mesh with the unstructured algorithm. This will 
>>not work, since currently Gmsh cannot automatically create
>>pyramids to insure the conformity between tets and quads.
>>
>>I have attached a modified version of your file with all the structured
>>grid constraints removed, which works well.
>>
>>Christophe
>>
>>-- 
>>Christophe Geuzaine
>>Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
>>geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu - http://geuz.org
> 

-- 
Christophe Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu - http://geuz.org