[Gmsh] Boundary layers in gmsh?

Sat Feb 27 10:32:54 CET 2010

On 27/02/10 7:24, Eric Nutsch wrote:
> Dave,
>
>
> Thanks, that's just the function I need! (I always feel stupid when I
> have to be pointed to the userguide, but sadly it happens more often
> than not)

Hi Eric,

sorry, it was just a quick answer, some commands are well hidden in the userguide...
And I was not sure that it could be used the way you want it with boundary layers

>
> I attempted the Boundary command you mentioned, with the "Volume
> Method" I previously proposed.
> I attempted it on Christophe's sphere example, but unfortunatly I get
> 50 errors similar to this:
> Error   : ERROR: Edge 1 - 9 multiple times in surface mesh
> Error   : ERROR: Edge 4 - 6 multiple times in surface...
>
> I tried the Coherence; command, but it did not influence the issue
> (long shot). My .geo file is attached if you are curious.

I forward it to Chritophe...

>
> Do you know if there is a way to do boolean addition of volumes in
> gmsh?

No

Regards,

Dave

(not critical, but it would be another possible avenue)
> I know that boolean subtraction is: Volume(4) = {1, 2, 3}; where 1 is
> the positive volume, 2 and 3 are negative volumes and 4 is the final
> volume.
>
>
> Thanks again, Eric Nutsch
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:46 PM, David Colignon
> <David.Colignon at ulg.ac.be>  wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> there is the "Boundary{}" command :
>>
>> http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Transformations
>>
>> Boundary { transform-list }
>>     (Not a transformation per-se.) Returns the boundary of the elementary
>> entities in transform-list.
>>
>> with
>>
>>      transform-list:
>>        Point | Line | Surface | Volume { expression-list };
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dave
>>
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>> On 26/02/10 08:39, Eric Nutsch wrote:
>>>
>>> Christophe,
>>>
>>>
>>> It appears that the surface loop method to the boundary layer will
>>> work in most all cases, but I may have found a more efficient way.
>>>
>>> The BL extrude command returns a volume number as well. If it were
>>> possible to take the farfield and preform a boolean operation with the
>>> BL volumes, it would make the process very simple even for complex
>>> BLs.
>>>
>>> I attempted this for in your sphere example:
>>> Volume(1001) = {1002, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};
>>>   ,but gmsh replied with "Unknown surface loop 1"
>>>
>>> Is there any way to convert a volume (created via extrude for example)
>>> to be converted into a surface loop?
>>> Perhaps I am missing an important leap in the coding structure, but if
>>> it was possible it would be an extremely handy function.
>>>
>>> What are your thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric Nutsch
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Christophe Geuzaine
>>> <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 24/02/10 11:26, julien hoessler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>> If it is a flat surface or if you know where the interface would be
>>>>> located you can just move your domain line/surface to the interface and
>>>>> extrude it towards the outside, but otherwise I can't seem to find a way
>>>>> to link the interface with the rest of the mesh
>>>>
>>>> Hi Guys - boundary layers are still a bit experimental, but the basics
>>>> are
>>>> there to connect them with other geometrical entities. Attached are two
>>>> examples:
>>>>
>>>> * sphere_boundary_layer.geo shows how to connect volumes to boundary
>>>> layer
>>>> faces ;
>>>>
>>>> * t1_boundary_layer_connection.geo shows how you can also connect things
>>>> to
>>>> the lines or vertices created during the boundary layer generation.
>>>>
>>>> Retrieving the id numbers of the extruded entities can be done in a
>>>> script
>>>> the usual way (list[] = Extrude...), but as usual this only gives access
>>>> to
>>>> the ids of the "top" surface, the new volume and the "lateral" surfaces.
>>>>
>>>> To retrieve the ids of the new lines and the new points, you have at the
>>>> moment to resort to the GUI (in "Tools->Options->General->General" select
>>>> "Enable mouse hover over meshes" to see the numbers displayed at the
>>>> bottom
>>>> of the graphical window).
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>>
>>>>> regards
>>>>> Julien
>>>>> On 24 Feb 2010, at 02:03, Eric Nutsch wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone successfully gotten an extruded boundary layer to interface
>>>>>> with a mesh?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Eric Nutsch
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Julien Hoessler
>>>>> PhD Student
>>>>> Department of Aeronautics
>>>>> Imperial College London
>>>>>
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>>>>> Email: julien.hoessler06 at imperial.ac.uk
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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