[Gmsh] 3rd order elements

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Mattias Unosson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your swift answer. I have managed to mesh the attached 
> geometry with 3rd order tetrahedrons, but I cannot force Gmsh to use 
> hexahedrons instead. If you could you hint me how to do this it would be 
> greatly appreciated. As I wrote you, we are investigating the 
> possibility to recommend Gmsh to the users of our solver.

Hi Mattis - 3rd order Hexes are not implemented. It would be fairly 
trivial to do so: have a look at Mesh/HighOrder.cpp

> 
> Kind regards,
> Mattias
> 
> 
> Jean-Francois Remacle wrote:
>>
>> Le 25-août-09 à 00:24, Mattias Unosson a écrit :
>>
>>> Salut,
>>>
>>> I have been reading up on your code and it looks really promising. We 
>>> are developing a solver and may have use of it.
>>>
>>> In our solver we have up to third order tetrahedrons, hexahedrons and 
>>> pentahedrons ("cake" elements). Do you have plans to add support for 
>>> third order elements? Would it require much work?
>>>
>>
>> it should work actually, try
>>
>> gmsh -degree 3
>>
>> jfr
>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Mattias
>>>
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