[Gmsh] Hidden assumptions for seam surfaces

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sat Jun 20 18:10:47 CEST 2009


Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have different geometry engines other than OpenCascade and gmsh. I am 
> able to generate surface
> mesh for surfaces that don't have any seam, but despite debugging, I am 
> unable to figure our why
> surface with seams fail to generate surface mesh.
> 
> 
> Are there any hidden assumptions ( in topology, ordering, parametric 
> coordinates )
> for seam surfaces in order to generate surface mesh on them ?

Seams are indeed a bit tricky. To understand how we deal with them the
easiest is probably to look at the code in meshGFace.cpp (cf.
gmsh2DMeshGeneratorPeriodic())


> 
> Thanks.
> csv
> 
> 
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