[Gmsh] Possibly a bug?

[rakesh patil]

Hi Geordie,

Thanks for your reply. There isn't any way to fix this problem? Or may be
gmsh can include another algorithm or a patch over this to solve it out?

Thanks

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Geordie McBain <gdmcbain at freeshell.org>wrote:

> 2011/10/27 rakesh patil <prakeshofficial at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I noticed one thing in gmsh. I used same single .geo file in multiple
> > instances of gmsh and tried to generate a mesh. And everytime the number
> of
> > nodes and elements were different for same .geo file. Is this a bug or is
> > that how it should behave?
>
> This is expected behaviour; see e.g.
>
>  http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2011/006431.html
>
> Lots of unstructured meshing algorithms contain random steps; see e.g.
>
> Persson, P.-O. and G. Strang (2004). SIAM Review  46 (2), 329+.
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/S0036144503429121
>
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