[Gmsh] lower limit for characteristic length
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Tue Dec 16 09:41:01 CET 2008
Zenker, Dr. Matthias wrote:
> Of course. Here it is.
>
> BTW, I use gmsh 2.2.6 on a WIN XP SP 2, Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM
> computer.
>
The default random perturbation factor seems to be a bit small in your
case. The following (increased "-rand" from "1.e-9" to "1.e-7")
gmsh small_cl.geo -2 -rand 1.e-7
seems to work just fine, but I had to stop it before the end due to
insufficient memory on my laptop. Multiplying all the element sizes by 3
and using the faster del2d algorithm
gmsh small_cl.geo -2 -rand 1.e-7 -clscale 3 -algo del2d
produced a nice mesh with about 23 million triangles.
> If I could force gmsh not to ignore the cl of the spline control points,
> it would probably be faster for such a case (if it wouldn't crash). Is
> there a trick to do that? Would it help to put isolated points with the
> desired cl at the desired location?
You should probably use Fields to fine-tune the element sizes. There are
some examples on the mailing list, as well as in demos/fields.geo.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Matthias
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be]
>> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 1:07 PM
>> To: Zenker, Dr. Matthias
>> Cc: gmsh at geuz.org
>> Subject: Re: [Gmsh] lower limit for characteristic length
>>
>> Zenker, Dr. Matthias wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> the question remains: is there a lower limit for the characteristic
>>> length cl, and why does gmsh crash when some points have a small cl?
>> It shouldn't crash, except when "cl" divided by the overall
>> size of model is getting close to machine accuracy (or more
>> accurately, close to the value of the random pertutbation
>> used in the meshing algorithms, which is 1e-9 by default).
>>
>> Could you send a file that shows the problem?
>>
>>
>>> I would like to add another one: Is it possible that gmsh
>> ignores the
>>> cl of the control points of a spline except for the first and last
>>> one? If
>> That's what Gmsh does: the cls of the control points are ignored.
>>
>>
>>
>>> so, is there a way to force gmsh to take into account the cl of the
>>> intermediate points also?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>>
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>>> *From:* gmsh-bounces at geuz.org [mailto:gmsh-bounces at geuz.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Zenker, Dr. Matthias
>>> *Sent:* Monday, November 17, 2008 10:49 AM
>>> *To:* gmsh at geuz.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Gmsh] lower limit for characteristic length
>>>
>>> I was wrong, it crashes also for cl=0.0005 (but after a
>> looong time,
>>> and with a runtime error).
>>>
>>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> ----------
>>> *From:* gmsh-bounces at geuz.org
>> [mailto:gmsh-bounces at geuz.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Zenker, Dr. Matthias
>>> *Sent:* Monday, November 17, 2008 10:16 AM
>>> *To:* gmsh at geuz.org
>>> *Subject:* [Gmsh] lower limit for characteristic length
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wonder if there is a lower limit for the characteristic
>>> length. I have a rather simple 2D geometry, and if
>> I set the cl
>>> for just two points to 0.0001, gmsh crashes during
>> the meshing
>>> after having given the error message "3 identical points in
>>> Qtest". The .gmsh-errors file is not written. With
>> cl=0.0005,
>>> this does not happen (but it takes veeery long to
>> compute the mesh).
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
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