[Gmsh] unexpected behavior in Surface creation

Manav Bhatia bhatiamanav at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 11:20:18 CET 2013


Thanks! It works!

Manav

On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> wrote:

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> On 05 Feb 2013, at 17:06, Manav Bhatia <bhatiamanav at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi, 
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>>   I am attempting to create a simple airfoil model with specified surface point locations. The script is attached. 
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>>   The script first creates the airfoil surface as a spline, and then the outer analysis boundary. Then, the surface is specified using the outer line loop followed by the inner line loop to designate the hole. 
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>>    The problem is that this is not creating a consistent planar surface, which leads to failure of the meshing procedure. 
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>>    It is likely that I am making inappropriate use of one of the functions, but I am unable to figure that out. I would appreciate if someone could point it out for me.
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> Hi Manav - You should remove the duplicate point at the trailing edge, e.g. by adding "Coherence;" after the Spline creation: see the attached file.
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>> Thanks,
>> Manav
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