[Gmsh] How generate a mesh with pyramidals elements?

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Wladimyr Mattos C. Dourado wrote:

> Dear Cristophe
> 
> First of all I wish send big congratulations for you and all gmsh 
> contributors by this very nice mesh generator.
> 
> We are developping a  CFD code and intend to use gmsh as our first mesh 
> generator.
> 
> I tried to construct some very simple example which can create pyramid 
> type elements. I had not success doing it. Should somebody supply me a 
> geo file example  to generate a mesh with pyramidals elements?

Pyramidal elements are only used in Gmsh's extrusion mesh generator (to
handle the case of degenerate prisms).

Best,

Christophe

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Christophe Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu - http://geuz.org