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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">there were several problems in your geometry:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The surfaces were defined multiple times, and were overlapping. You need to define the heater loop as hole of your square surface.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The characteristic length of 1 was very small, given the length of 1000 of your square. That made gmsh crash for me. I changed it to 5, and 50 for the outer
surface points.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Minor: The lines of the heater loop are duplicated – the coherence command takes care of that.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I have attached a fixed geo file that works for me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">HTH,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Matthias</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Alejandro Ceballos [mailto:aceballos@berkeley.edu]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 7. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">November 2013 19:09<br>
<b>An:</b> gmsh@geuz.org<br>
<b>Betre</b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">ff:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> [Gmsh] Unable to mesh this complex geometry. Gmsh crashes</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello everyone, I started using gmsh this week to create a mesh of the geometry attached below. I cannot get this to mesh, as the program crashes upon attempting to do so. What is wrong with my geometry that
is crashing gmsh?<br>
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Thank you,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Alejandro</p>
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