[Gmsh] Increasing/Changing the number of cells

[Jean-François Remacle]

You should used extruded meshes : 

see e.g. gmsh/benchmarks/extrude/cylinder_wiki.geo 

JF

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Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) - Louvain School of Engineering
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> Le 26 avr. 2018 à 13:04, Matteo Dalla Vecchia <matteo.dallavecchia at studenti.unitn.it> a écrit :
> 
> hia <matteo.dallavecchia at studenti.unitn.it>:
> Dear to whom it may concerns,
> 
> I'm currently trying to generate the mesh for a Membrane with GMSH programm and i would like to ask a few questions since i'm new to it.
> 
> I attached the Mesh i generated so far, it's a Cylindrical Mesh (To represent a membrane 800 micrometers of diameters and 2 micrometers of thickness).
> 
> It says on Statistical that there are no Nodes in the Volume.
> Now my point and question is:
> 
> I would like to have two layer of elements inside the volume from the top to the bottom (Along z axis that is the one with 2 micrometer), e,g surface elements + 2 layer of elements inside the membrane + the bottome surface layer of elements. Is it possible to explicity say this to the program ? 
> 
> Second) I also would like to export the geometry to FeniCS, Does the mesh keep the same geometries once the file is transfered in XML file (The one for FeniCS).
> e.g. i used 400 of raidus will this radius be 400 without explicit unit measure also in FeniCS?
> 
> Thank you for your patience,
> Matteo
> 
>