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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Guillaume,  <br>
        yes I have looked at the documentation to understand it but I
      cannot understand it fully though.<br>
      <br>
      The entries for the point entity  inside the $Periodic  I think I
      understand (please correct me If I am wrong?).<br>
      For example: <br>
      0 8 1   //  0 indicating it is point, 8 and 1 are slave and master
      tag entity<br>
      Affine 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1  // indicating the Affine
      transformation to go from master to slave<br>
      1    // Number of entities<br>
      8 1 // slave node number, master node number<br>
      <br>
      For the Line entity Inside $Periodic I have for example<br>
      1 12 2  // 1 indicating it is a line , Not clear what 12 and 2
      correspond to as they are not corresponding node numbers<br>
      Affine 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1<br>
      43  // Number of nodes <br>
      xx  xx   // Matching node numbers<br>
      <br>
      I cannot seem to understand 12 and 2 in the first line after 1 as
      12 and 2 are not corresponding point/node numbers on the master
      and slave surfaces.<br>
      <br>
      Likewise for the Surface entity inside $Periodic I have for
      example<br>
      <br>
      2 8 1  // 2 indicating it is a surface, Not clear what 8 and 1 are<br>
      Affine 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1<br>
      3511  // Number of matched nodes between master and slave surfaces<br>
      xx  xx <br>
      <br>
      Hope this clarifies my question better.<br>
      <br>
      Thanks again for the help<br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 27/04/2017 7:20 AM, DILASSER Guillaume wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">Have you looked at the documentation
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              href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#MSH-ASCII-file-format">here</a>
            ? It says :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><i><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">$Periodic<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><i><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">number-of-periodic-entities<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><i><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">dimension slave-entity-tag master-entity-tag<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">number-of-nodes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">slave-node-number master-node-number<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">$EndPeriodic<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">It looks like your information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
            lang="EN-US">Faithfully Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#000099">Guillaume
            DILASSER</span><span
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#000099">Doctorant
            SACM / LEAS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#000099">CEA
            - Centre de Saclay - Bât.123 - PC 319c</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000099"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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            Gif sur Yvette Cedex - France -</span><span
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                style="color:blue">guillaume.dilasser@cea.fr</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  lang="EN-US">De :</span></b><span
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                lang="EN-US"> gmsh
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:gmsh-bounces@ace20.montefiore.ulg.ac.be">mailto:gmsh-bounces@ace20.montefiore.ulg.ac.be</a>]
                <b>De la part de</b> Ranga Sudarsan<br>
                <b>Envoyé :</b> jeudi 27 avril 2017 12:56<br>
                <b>À :</b> gmsh mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info"><gmsh@onelab.info></a><br>
                <b>Objet :</b> [Gmsh] Help understanding MSH file
                entries while using "Periodic surface with translate "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
            lang="EN-US"> </span>Hi there,<br>
              I am meshing a geometry with periodic (translated meshes)
          boundary conditions along one of the directions (X in my
          case). I am using<br>
          periodic surface with translate to setup the translated
          periodic meshes. I need help understanding some entries in the
          Msh file generated specifically the section under "$Periodic"
          (See attached image, in my case surfaces 1 and 8 are
          periodic). I understand that in my case their are totally 11
          periodic entities -- 5 points , 5 lines and 1 surface and my
          trouble is in understanding the format of the output
          corresponding to each of these periodic entities. It will be
          of great help if some one explain to me what is the format for
          each of these entities so that I can write a code to read the
          msh file and generate relevant input files for my finite
          element solver. I have attached the geo and mesh file.<br>
          <br>
          Thanks again<br>
          Ranga Sudarsan<o:p></o:p></p>
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