[Gmsh] Could not orient surface normal ?

Aleksejs Fomins aleksejs.fomins at lspr.ch
Wed Nov 18 16:12:17 CET 2015


Dear Prof. Geuzaine,

Thank you very much for your reply.

May I ask how you discovered that the curves were overlapping? It could help me to debug this and further problems

Kind regards,
Aleksejs

On 15.11.2015 15:19, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
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>> On 11 Nov 2015, at 10:53, Aleksejs Fomins <aleksejs.fomins at lspr.ch <mailto:aleksejs.fomins at lspr.ch>> wrote:
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>> Dear GMSH,
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>> I have a model for a cavity simulation necessary for my PhD.
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>> 2D mesh works fine, 3D mesh throws a bunch of warnings like
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>>  Warning : Converged for i=7 j=5 (err=1.81843e-08 iter=2) BUT xyz error = 12.5473 in point (-1.604927e+01,-5.104927e+01,4.445920e+01) on surface 123
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>> and produces a completely rubbish mesh. I attach the geometry and the full error log.
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> The geometry seems wrong: there are overlapping curves (orphaned, colored in orange in the attached picture).
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> 
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Aleksejs Fomins
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