I am looking to determine the mesh element type (hexahedral? tetrahedral?linear brick?) used in the wire geometry associated with tutorial 7 in the Elmer GUI Tutorials.
Thank you for any information you can provide.
Elmer mesh element type/GUI Tutorial 7/wire.grd
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Re: Elmer mesh element type/GUI Tutorial 7/wire.grd
Hex, 808 code in Elmer.
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Re: Elmer mesh element type/GUI Tutorial 7/wire.grd
wire,grd defines a 2D quad mesh that is rotated 360 degrees into a solid mesh. Although most of the elements come out 808 Hex, the ones on the axis come out 404 solid triangle elements.
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Re: Elmer mesh element type/GUI Tutorial 7/wire.grd
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The general logic of the code is actually 100*NumberOfCorners+NumberOfNodes. So 404 is actually quadrilateral linear element, 408 is quadratic etc. Unfortunately quads and tets have both 4 corners, so tets got the family 5, which pushed pyramids to family 7. Prisms are 6 as they should.
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The general logic of the code is actually 100*NumberOfCorners+NumberOfNodes. So 404 is actually quadrilateral linear element, 408 is quadratic etc. Unfortunately quads and tets have both 4 corners, so tets got the family 5, which pushed pyramids to family 7. Prisms are 6 as they should.
-Peter
Re: Elmer mesh element type/GUI Tutorial 7/wire.grd
Thank you. The naming convention for the different element types? 404 - quadratic, 808 - hex, etc. Is this information provided in the Elmer documentation? If so, which manual would it be?
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