[Gmsh] simple hexahedron with periodic, aka. conforming, boundary mesh ?

[guillaume.demesy at fresnel.fr]

Hi Benedict

>From what I remember, the order/orientation of your edges does matter a
lot in the definition of periodic surface.

You should maybe try to modify this kind of instructions:
Periodic Surface SURFSLAVEX { l00v,-l13,-l03v,l03 } = SURFMASTERX {
l01v,l11,-l02v,-l01 };

by something like:
Periodic Surface SURFSLAVEX { l00v,-l13,-l03v,l03 } = SURFMASTERX {
-l01v,l01,102v,-111};

... and see what happens!

Best of luck,

Guillaume


> Dear GMSH developers and users
>
> attached you will find a simple .geo script that tries to create a
> tetrahedral mesh
> for a hexahedron whose respective surface meshes should be conforming so
> as
> to allow for simple implementation of periodic boundary conditions.
>
> As it appears in my gmsh version:
>
> GUI toolkit: FLTK 1.3.0
>  * Build OS: MacOSX
>  * Build date: 20111203
>  * Build host: ace25.montefiore.ulg.ac.be
>  * Build options: Ann Bamg Bfgs Blas(VecLib) Blossom Chaco DIntegration
> Dlopen FlTree Fltk GMP Gmm Jpeg(Fltk) Kbipack Lapack(VecLib) MathEx Med
> Mesh Metis Mmg3d Mpeg NativeFileChooser Netgen OpenCascade OpenGL PETSc
> Parser Plugins Png(Fltk) Post SLEPc Salome Solver Tetgen Zlib
>  * Packaged by: geuzaine
>
>
> There will be conforming periodic surface meshes in x and z direction but
> the surface mesh in the y direction
> crashes, with an ugly surface mesh that does not cover the rectangular
> surface.
>
> Is my .geo script wrong or does this simply not yet work in gmsh ?
>
> Is there any way to work around this ?
>
>
> Last but not least, I should say that in a gmsh version of last year, I
> actually managed to create a correct mesh
> but now with the very same script that does not work any more.
>
>
> Thanks for having a look, Benedikt
>
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