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Meshing - General
Pre-meshing
Sizing Functions
Edge Meshing
Picking
Grading/Spacing
Special characteristics
Temporary graphics
Links, Directions
Options
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Picking
Sense
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Soft Links
Form links
Break links
Maintain links
By default, GAMBIT will form links between unmeshed edges that are
picked together
By default, GAMBIT will maintain links between meshed edges that are
picked together
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Grading
Single-sided grading
Symmetric grading
Asymmetric grading
Single-sided grading:
R = l(i+1) / li
Spacing
Spacing
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the Type
the Spacing
Mesh Options
(and
Example
want
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Face Meshing
Quad
Quad/Tri
Map
Pave
Wedge
Tri
Map
Submap
Tri-Primitive
Pave
Pave
Quad: Map
Quad: Submap
Quad: Tri-Primitive
Quad: Pave
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Quad/Tri: Map
Quad/Tri: Pave
Quad/Tri: Wedge
Tri: Pave
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Remove mesh
Hard Linking
180
e
e
where:
max
min
Range of skewness:
0
best
1
worst
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Display Type
Plane/Sphere
Range
Display Mode
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A poor quality grid will cause inaccurate solutions and/or slow convergence.
Minimize EquiAngle Skew:
Tris
Tets
e.g., adjacent cells should not have size ratio greater than 20%.
Delete mesh
Perform necessary decomposition and/or pre-mesh edges and faces.
Remesh
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Mesh Smoothing
Length-weighted Laplacian
Centroid Area
Winslow
Length-weighted Laplacian
Equipotential
By default,
Similar operation.
All continuum zones are by default, fluid.
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Linear/Quadratic Elements
(FIDAP/POLYFLOW USERS ONLY)
General tools
Higher-order elements
For FEM codes (FIDAP and POLYFLOW), the element order can be
changed at all three meshing levels
Only linear and quadratic elements are directly available
A change to quadratic element type at one level will automatically
change the element type in other levels
The following table presents the most commonly used and
recommended quadratic element types for FEM - solvers
POLYFLOW
FIDAP
edge
3-node
3-node
face
8-node quad
9-node quad
volume
21-node brick
27-node brick
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