[Gmsh] Slivers generated by GMSH

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 3 Mar 2020, at 12:04, Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at uliege.be> wrote:
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>> On 3 Mar 2020, at 07:37, Grunwald, Christoph <Christoph.Grunwald at emi.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I try to mesh a volume filled with spheres. The meshing works – however, GMSH creates some very flat tetraeder (sliver). Since I need the mesh for a structural analysis with explicit time integration, these elements boild down the whole simulation and finally kill the simulation. Are there any hints, how to get rid of these elements?
>> The file is attached, I am working with the development snapshot of GMSH from 01-27-2020.
>> 
> 
> I get this with Gmsh 2.5.4 :

I meant 4.5.4 of course...


> 
> Gamma = 0.01568,  0.8118, 0.9999 (min, avg, max) (radius inscribed/circumscribed)
> minJ =  0.00858,     1.07,      5.7 (min, avg, max) (jacobian)
> ICN =    0.170,    0.845,    1.000 (worst, avg, best) (inverse cond. number)
> 
> which looks ok (no slivers).
> 
> Christophe
> 
>> Thank you very much,
>> Kind regards,
>> Christoph Grunwald
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Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine