[Gmsh] sparsity pattern for FE applications
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Wed Nov 12 20:13:51 CET 2008
Umut Tabak wrote:
> Dear all and developers,
>
> When using GMSH generated meshes for my FE system matrix generation, I
> realized that the system matrices assembled are quite sparse(there can
> sometimes be quite some element far from the main diagonal of my system
> matrices). Is there any plan to improve this, or is there already a
There are many different uses of finite element meshes... so we choose
not to "optimize" the numbering for any specific one.
You should run a renumbering algorithm (google for "reverse cuthill
mckee") in your solver.
> workaround for this(I read in the manual that GMSH is not designed as an
> industrial strength mesh generator however.)
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
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Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine