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After in ElmerGUI Open>name.msh I saved the project, so that mesh.nodes, mesh.header, mesh.elements, mesh.boundary files were created, then I opened them to compare with my file name.msh : mesh.nodes had very curious coordinates, only integer values, I replaced them by the coordinates of the nodes w...

I posted a screenshot of my computer which is what I get when clicking in ElmerGUI File > Open > name.msh

http://dl.free.fr/k4GbA7h5z
and here with the node numbers :
http://dl.free.fr/riHb9gFmH

The edge points remain at their position but the mesh is compressed on a centered line.

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Your question was not stupid : I didn't. I am such a beginner... This time ElmerGrid ran, I got the file with a beautiful boundary layer (I found out how to create it ), it opens well in Gmsh. Now I opened it in Elmer GUI, File>open, the design is completly destroyed, In Mesh>configure I saw that th...

Thanks Thomas, your command must be good, but after opening ElmerGrid in a Terminal, typing ElmerGrid 14 2 ancre3 -autoclean I get : LoadElmerInput: the opening of the mesh file ancre3.msh failed! I opened the file in a text pad : $MeshFormat 2.2 0 8 $EndMeshFormat $ParametricNodes 1094 1 0 0 0 0 1 ...

Hello, I don't know which software to use to create a 2D geometry file or a meshed file that could be loaded to Elmer. I guess it should be wether a .grd or a .in2d file. Thanks for the help you can bring to me. Following lines are what I tried to do : I need to study a turbulent flow around a beam ...