[Gmsh] gmsh gives a GSL error when generating mesh

Artur Palha artur.palha at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 18:05:12 CEST 2008


Dear Christophe Geuzaine

Thank you for your reply.

I tried with order 1 and 2 and it works perfectly. Thanks.

Will be waiting for quads and higher order.

Best regards

-artur palha

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Christophe Geuzaine
<cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Artur Palha wrote:
>>
>> Dear all
>>
>> I am trying to compile version 2.2.2 of gmsh on my ubuntu machine (the
>> respositories version is older).
>>
>> gmsh compiles ok. The problem comes when I try to generate a mesh,
>> then it show the message console with the following error, continuosly
>> showing:
>>
>> GSL: second index out of range (matrix_source.c, line 35)
>>
>> I donwloaded the last version of gsl, compiled it and made a prefix
>> for configure to use this latest version but the problems persists...
>>
>> Can you give me a help on what might be causing the problem?
>
> Hi Artur - Meshes with order > 2 are not yet officially supported. Use only
> first and second order elements for now.
>
>
>>
>> Another question: is gmsh able to generate quad elements?
>>
>
> Only with structured algorithms for now (transfinite/extrusion), or combined
> with triangles (cf. "Recombine" command). A full-quad algorithm is in
> preparation.
>
>> Yet another question: I generated a mesh with a previous version of
>> gmsh and I got elements of type 27 and 23 (I was using 4th order on
>> the boundaries) can anyone explain me what this is, since on the
>> manual element type goes only until 19.
>
> Don't use order > 2 for now.
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanking in advance
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> -artur palha
>>
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