[Gmsh] volume of a mesh

[julien hoessler]

Hi Geordie,
Thanks, I had given up on doing it with Gmsh and used another software  
instead, but only setting physical volumes and no boundaries and using  
the technique you described seems to do the trick
Regards
Julien
On 11 Jul 2011, at 01:41, Geordie McBain wrote:

> 2011/6/28 Hoessler, Julien <julien.hoessler06 at imperial.ac.uk>:
>> Dear all,
>> Is there a way to evaluate the volume of a 3d mesh? It's not part  
>> of the
>> statistics
>
> If the mesh is strictly 3d, you can use
>
> . Tools/Plugins:
> - New view
> - MathEval (Expression0 = 1)
> - Integrate
>
> but if there are also lower dimensional elements, their measures will
> also be added to the answer...  See
>
>  http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2011/006145.html
>
> for a discussion.  (Add do let me know if you come up with a better
> answer as I'm still looking myself.)

Julien Hoessler
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Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London

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