<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the response, Dr. Zenker. So it doesn't sound like there is a good way to do what I want currently?<br><br>Drew</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Matthias.Zenker@erbe-med.com" target="_blank">Matthias.Zenker@erbe-med.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">AFAIK in Elmer you cannot assign a material to a surface in a 3D simulation, so you need those very flat volumes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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for a similar problem, as it was not available for volumes with internal boundaries. See the following post from the mailing list:
<a href="http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2013/008379.html" target="_blank">http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2013/008379.html</a>. This is a year ago, however, and things might have evolved since then.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 6. Oktober 2014 14:52<br>
<b>An:</b> Christophe Geuzaine<br>
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<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Gmsh] Meshing stackup with thin & thick layers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the response. Don't I need to treat them as volumes so that I can assign them different materials in my solver? I'm using Elmer, btw.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Christophe Geuzaine <<a href="mailto:cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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On 01 Oct 2014, at 22:23, Drew D <<a href="mailto:drewd423@gmail.com" target="_blank">drewd423@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I have a composite stackup with alternating thin & thick layers. The thick ones are are rougly 10x the thickness of the thin ones, and the aspect ratio is on the order of 100:1. The mesh for something like this is always huge. Is there a way to treat the
thin layers as 2D shells, while keeping the thicker ones 3D? The model is being exported as a STEP file and brought into Gmsh.<br>
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Just include the surfaces in your model; Gmsh generates conformal meshes so this internal surface can then be treated as a thin layer in your solver. If you need duplicated nodes on the surface (which Gmsh normally does not generate), you can run Plugin(Crack)
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