[Gmsh] Variable thickness surface

[Ruth V. Sabariego]

Hi Mathieu,
Have a look at the Gmsh Tutorial 7:
http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#t7_002egeo

HTH
Ruth

Dr. Ir. Ruth V. Sabariego
University of Liege, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 
Applied & Computational Electromagnetics (ACE),
phone: +32-4-3663737 - fax: +32-4-3662910 - http://ace.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/



On 13 Oct 2011, at 12:27, Mathieu ARQUIER wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> First of all, thank you very much for developing GMSH !!! I used it for several years now as pre-processor to create meshes for my structural calculation software and it works very well :).
> 
> Now, I want to go further and would like to create variable thickness shell elements. So, I was wondering if there is a way to interpolate a scalar field inside a 2D meshed surfaced (i.e. the thickness) ? Basically, I want to define a surface with a variable thickness (let's say I know the value at some nodes of its border), and, once the meshing has been done, I want to retrieve the value of the interpolated thickness at each new created nodes inside the surface in order to define variable thickness shell elements.
> 
> Do you see any way to do so ?
> 
> Thank you in advance !
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mathieu ARQUIER
> Structural Engineer
> mathieu.arquier at gmail.com
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