[Gmsh] Surface does not remesh as fine as volume

Lisa Pankewitz lisa at simula.no
Thu Oct 8 07:49:12 CEST 2020


Thank you so much! That helps! Now I also understand the error message.

Have a nice day!

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 23:06, Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at uliege.be>
wrote:

>
>
> On 7 Oct 2020, at 21:58, Lisa Pankewitz <lisa at simula.no> wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern,
>
> first of all - thanks for providing this incredible software and report!
> It is really appreciated.
>
> I am using a geometry I used for several samples, but for this one I
> cannot figure out why the surface is not remeshing in the same way the
> volume is.
> I attached a minimal example of the .geo and one .vtk. I am working with
> gmsh 4.6.1.
>
> I would really appreciate it if you have a hint of what I am missing.
>
>
> The surface is just not remeshed at all (cf. the error message "Error :
> Invalid exterior boundary mesh for parametrization") - hence Gmsh tries to
> produce a (refined) volume mesh that conforms to the (coarse) surface mesh.
>
> The issue with the input surface mesh seems to be related to the
> orientation of input triangles (which are sometimes flipped). See the
> attached picture.
>
> Christophe
>
>
> Thank you for your time and have a fantastic day!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Lisa
>
>
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>
> <new_attempt.vtk><example.geo>
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>> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
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>
>
> --
Kind regards,

Lisa

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*Lisa Pankewitz*
PhD student
Simula Research Laboratory
Martin Linges vei 25
1364 Fornebu
Office 329
lisa at simula.no
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