<p>Bonjour Alexis,</p>
<p>I had the same problem a few weeks ago (however, I am using Getdp). I guess freefem++ also needs identical surface meshes when periodic conditions are at stake.</p>
<p>Basically, you have 2 options to generate identic meshes on periodic surfaces.</p>
<p>1- structured meshes : please see the .geo file attached to http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2010/005259.html</p>
<p>2- Extrude geometry + mesh and delete the aditionnal entries manually : please refer to the attached.geo in http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2010/005312.html for a minimal working example.</p>
<p>Depending on the physics you're dealing with, you can to use 1- or 2- (BTW, what kind of problem are you trying to solve with freefem++?). I am solving a vector Helmholtz equation with quasi-periodic conditions and 2- is way more adapted (at least with getdp : I still don't understand why the 1- doesn't work at all in my case).</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Guillaume Demésy</p>
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<p>On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:49:58 +0100, Alexis Blasselle <alexis.blasselle@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010ff; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; width: 100%;">Dear all,<br /><br />I begin by thanking you for all the work on Gmsh, which is very impressive.<br /><br />I generate a 3d mesh with the attached file .geo. I can load it with a Finite Element solver named FreeFem++, but do not succeed to define periodic finite elements space on my weird cube: I have the following error message<br /> <br />"the both number of face is not the same "<br /><br />How can I fix this, and impose the same elements on the symmetric sides of the cube ?<br /><br />I thank you very much in advance for all piece of advise you could give me,<br /> <br />Best regards,<br /><br />Alex<br /><br /><br /><br />-- <br /><a href="http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~blasselle/">http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~blasselle/</a><br /></blockquote>