[Gmsh] discrete-continuum mesh
Christophe Geuzaine
c.geuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Fri Jun 24 02:14:04 CEST 2005
Neilen Marais wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I haven't yet used gmsh, but I plan to be soon.
>
> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:53 +0200, Kovacs, Attila wrote:
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>>For the latter purpose I need a mesh generation approach which can
>>combine 2d and 3d elements in a manner that the nodes and edges of
>>neighbouring elements of different dimensions are geometrically
>>identical.
>
>
> I need the same functionality! I'm working on a microwave frequency
> electromagnetic FEM code. Being able to get triangles matching the faces
> of tetraheders is very usefull for specifying absorbing boundary
> conditions, or when hybridising with other methods.
>
>
>>Do you have a method for solving this problem?
>
>
> Indeed, can this be done?
>
Yes. This is actually, by design, the only way Gmsh works. Gmsh only
generates meshes for which triangles on the boundary are faces of
tetrahedra in the volume.
> Thanks
> Neilen
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