[Gmsh] Remeshing a distorted mesh with gmsh

David Colignon David.Colignon at ulg.ac.be
Thu Mar 15 15:25:24 CET 2012


On 14/03/12 21:19, Colin McAuliffe wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using gmsh as a preprocessor for a large deformation solid mechanics problem. After a number of increments the mesh
> becomes distorted and I would like to remesh before continuing the solution.
>
> What I have tried is to create a .msh file with the deformed mesh(attached), and load it into gmsh but I haven't figured
> out how to remesh directly from the .msh file. Is this even possible or is a new .geo needed? Also, the elements must be
> all quads.

Hi Colin,

it is still experimental and not well documented, but you should have a look at:

https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/browser/trunk/tutorial/t13.geo

https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/wiki/STLRemeshing

https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/wiki/BlossomQuad

https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/wiki/


Regards,

Dave



>
> Thanks
> Colin
>
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> This body part will be downloaded on demand.