[Gmsh] Unknown type of element?

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Bernhard Stoevesandt wrote:
> hello,
> 
> here i have a new question: i've been generating this unstructured mesh.
> since there is supposed to be a mix of different elmenet types, i wrote a
> script to add some elements. i used gmsh to check if it is correct. well,
> this worked well until maybe two hours ago. suddenly i got this error
> message, even though i did not change anything about this element. why is
> that?
> here is the error message
> 
> Info    : Reading mesh file
> '/home/sperling/bernhard/Wissen/Meshing/3Dmeshing/fx79_newtuq.msh'
> Info    : 2218 nodes
> Info    : 10602 elements
> Error   : Unknown type for element 6
> Info    : Read mesh file
> '/home/sperling/bernhard/Wissen/Meshing/3Dmeshing/fx79_newtuq.msh'
> 
> attached is the .msh file
> 

Elements 10492 and 10587 have 9 nodes instead of 8:

10492 5 899 899 8 2214 2119 2113 2018 2113 120 121 7 6
10587 5 899 899 8 2213 2215 2114 2112 216 215 216 1 101

(And element 10589 is missing.)


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Christophe Geuzaine
Assistant Professor, Case University, Mathematics
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