[Gmsh] Negative Jacobians in 2nd Order Mesh

Nikhil Vaidya nikhilvaidya91 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 17:08:46 CEST 2020


Hi Christophe,

Your suggestion solved my problem. Thanks!

Best,
Nikhil

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 2:19 PM Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at uliege.be>
wrote:

>
>
> > On 4 Sep 2020, at 13:49, Nikhil Vaidya <nikhilvaidya91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a geometry for which 1st order tetrahedral meshing works fine
> (with no negative jacobians). For the 2nd order case, I get a few negative
> jacobians. This problem does not go away even when I try to regularize the
> mesh or reduce mesh sizes in certain regions with small geometric features.
> >
> > Does someone have a suggestion?
>
> Try the high-order mesh optimizer: "-optimize_ho" on the command line.
>
> Christophe
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Nikhil
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>> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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