[Gmsh] Gmsh High Order Element Problem

Mikhail Artemyev artemiev.mikhail at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 15:32:07 CEST 2014


Hi Kamil,

Basically, characteristic length is a length of a mesh edge (on a line 
connecting points where the characteristic length is defined). But you 
can find more information about it searching in Gmsh's mailing list 
archive http://geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/

Best,
Mikhail

On 09/20/2014 10:56 AM, gmsh-request at ace20.montefiore.ulg.ac.be wrote:
> I recognized that this is a problem about characteristic length
> parameter. In my .geo files, I set it as 1. However, I didn't understand
> ito which value do I have to increase or decrease this parameter. I read
> the manual of gmsh but couldn't clearly understand the relation between
> characteristic length and mesh. Can you please give a brief information
> about this?