[Gmsh] Gmsh Tensor Plugin Request

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Carl Osterwisch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Using Gmsh to post-process structural analysis results would be more
> convenient if there were a plugin to calculate maximum, mid, and
> minimum principal stress from a tensor view (as well as the von mises
> which currently exists).
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with the code to do it myself but I would think
> it would work somewhat like the "extract" plugin and create 3 new
> vector views for the results labeled basename_maxprin,
> basename_midprin, and basename_minprin.
> 

Carl - Good idea. If you send me a routine that, given a vector of 9 
doubles representing a 3x3 tensor, computes the max, mid and min 
principal stresses, I'll wrap it up a in a plugin.

Best,

Christophe

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Christophe Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
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