ElmerGrid - barrel.grd - why the top step did not rotate?

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ElmerGrid - barrel.grd - why the top step did not rotate?

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Hi,

I am reading the ElmerGrid manual. There is an example named: barrel.grd. I noticed that in the output, only the bottom two steps rotated to give cylindrical structure. But the top step rotated to give cube, instead of cylinder. Why?

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Re: ElmerGrid - barrel.grd - why the top step did not rotate?

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Hi

If you want a cylinder you cannot rotate the innermost elements as they would become singular. ElmerGrid does not rotate the innermost unit cell and makes some trickes to get a nice mesh topology. This is seen in the "barrel" case. If you would like to have a real cylinder you should always have at least two subcells in the radial direction.

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Re: ElmerGrid - barrel.grd - why the top step did not rotate?

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Got it. For example, in the same barrel.grd case, changing the first line in material structure from 1 0 0 to 1 1 0 creates a cylinder on top as well.

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Material Structure in 2D
1 1 0
1 1 0
1 1 1
End
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Thanks a lot.
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