[Gmsh] Meshing a plate with one layer of elements along the thickness

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at uliege.be
Thu Feb 7 08:34:46 CET 2019



> On 4 Feb 2019, at 04:34, Phu Nguyen <phu.nguyen at monash.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a simple rectangular plate, which is made by extruding one surface along the thickness
> 
> Extrude {0,0,t} {
>   Surface{201,202,203}; Layers{1}; Recombine;
> }
> 
> Then, I used mesh with all hexas in Subdivision algorithm,

Generate a quad surface mesh, and don't subdivide the 3D mesh...


> I got hexahedral elements, as I need, but there are always two layers of elements along the thickness. 
> 
> My question is how to have only 1 single layer of elements along the thickness? Many thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Phu
> 
> 
> 
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