Questions tagged [mesh]
Questions on the use and creation of meshes including the use of MeshRegion, ElementMesh, and TetGenLink.
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Cell-adjacency Graph of a Square Mesh
Consider the list of points
pts = {{1, 1}, {1, 2}, {2, 1}, {2, 2}}
I want to use them to define a 2x2 square mesh using ...
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Holding and dragging mouse to select multiple buttons/cells
Is it possible to create a TogglerBar-type object in which several buttons can be selected/deselected simply by holding the mouse's left-click button and dragging ...
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Selecting Edges and Corners in a Mesh
Consider the following VoronoiMesh obtained after a few iterations of Lloyd's relaxation algorithm
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Converting .stl files to meshes for FEA
I'm trying to conduct finite element analysis on imported .stl models from SketchUp. I can't seem to generate an ElementMesh. I think it may be something to do with intersecting boundaries, and this ...
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VoronoiMesh as a TogglerBar
Is it possible to use a VoronoiMesh to define a TogglerBar or SetterBar type ...
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Creating a Hexagonal Lattice with VoronoiMesh
I want to create a hexagonal lattice using VoronoiMesh. One can achieve that with the following code, where L=5,
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How to perform adaptive mesh refinement on a 3D element consisting of 4 superimposed meshes on AceFem?
I'm trying to perform adaptive mesh refinement on a body that is composed of 4 separate meshes joined together. The body is composed of the following individual meshes:
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Keep mesh of triangulation under complex valued transformation
I try to make a quick tool for "plotting" complex valued functions. Therefore I generate a Table of complex valued points lying in the complex plane building a ...
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Inaccurate result from ImplicitRegion
I'm trying to describe the intersection of two cylinders by an ImplicitRegion (in order to use it in NDSolve later).
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Using mesh cell highlighting to override the default rendering of a region
The default rendering of a region can be rather uninformative. Consider this simple example.
DiscretizeRegion[Rectangle[{0, 0}, {2, 1}], MaxCellMeasure -> 2]
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Area of an Annulus (MeshTools<>NIntegrate)
In a very simple example I try to describe an annulus using MeshTools package
mesh2D = AnnulusMesh[{0, 0}, { 1 , 2 }, {-Pi, Pi}, {36, 10}];
The area given ...
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Generating Mesh of Rotated Graphics
I have a simple geometry that consists of a few rotated rectangles
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Grainy 2D RegionIntersection Plot: How can I make it smoother?
I have the following code to display three coloured disks and their coloured intersections. However, the result does not appear to have been anti-aliased enough. How can I make it smoother?
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Select Part of a boundary mesh
I would like to pick a part of a boundary mesh, for example
bm=BoundaryMesh[Cuboid[]]
Is it possible to select the part(side) ...
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How to mesh a region with inclusions touching the boundary
Suppose you have a region composed of two materials. You define the inclusions of material 1 through, e.g., disks, ellipsoids, ...
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Adaptive Meshrefinement NDSolve&FiniteElements
In a simple example I try to solve the heat equation using NDSolve and Method->"FiniteElement". I know that NDSolve gives ...
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Draw Lines on 3D Plot at certain coordinate
Following this example, I though it would be as easy as this:
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Nonatomic expression expected at position 1 in First[None]
This is a follow-up question to an earlier question:Solving a system of PDEs on a piecewise polynomial domain.
I tried to solve the system of equations from one of my previous post with the different ...
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Compare FEM mesh with the mesh created within Mathematica
This is a follow-up question to an earlier question: Make uniform mesh with quad elements
Question: How to solve system of equations with NDsolve on the mesh created in Ansys in order to compare it ...
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Computing the surface area and volume of molecules
Here is a somewhat difficult problem I've had for a long while.
Space-filling models of molecules can be easily generated by ChemicalData[], ...
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Nearly equally spaced 3D-mesh
How to mesh a volume (3D region) with nearly equaly spaced vertices?
Example: Disk with radius 50 and height 15
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Unable to use ElementMarker in DirichletCondition with structured quad mesh
I would like to use ElementMarker in a DirichletCondition on a structured quad mesh, but I am receiving the error:
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Blunt edges of an octahedron by Region
Why does the octahedron constructed by the following code have blunt edges ?
Region[ImplicitRegion[Abs[x] + Abs[y] + Abs[z] <= 1, {x, y, z}]]
How to improve it?...
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How to extrude a planar mesh to a volume slice?
Is there an easy way to extrude a planar 2D-mesh to a volume slice?
ring = RegionDifference[Disk[{0, 0}, 1], Disk[{0, 0}, 1/2]];
DiscretizeRegion[ring]
The ...
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Mesh a hollow cylinder
Questions seems to be simple answerde, but in Mathemtica v11.0.1 I didn't find a solution
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control FEM grid size for 1D regions
I need to manage the mesh size for finite element method solution to a differential equation, where properties change over two regions. This is for one dimension. I created a boundary mesh of three ...
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RegionUnion works but RegionIntersection does not
I am trying to create an Alberti's window figure as described in this question, in which a (three-dimensional) polyhedron (e.g., dodecahedron) is projected onto a (two-dimensional) plane. I realized ...
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Unwanted mesh line in spherical plot
I am trying to create a spherical colour plot on which the mesh will rotate with manipulating the \phi1 variable. I read this solution and gave it a try with the following code:
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Combining MeshRegions of generated 3D shapes and RandomPolygons
I am interested in generating 3D a joint BoundaryMeshRegion or a MeshRegion from different shapes and polygons. This works for <...
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Make uniform mesh with quad elements
I have the following code that generates a finite element mesh with triangular elements which by using command ToQuadMesh I convert to the quadrilateral elements, but I am not able to make the uniform ...
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How to sample numerically a function using a mesh-grid function in 3D?
I am working on a problem where I want to sample a scalar function f[x,y,z].
The problem is how to obtain a mesh-grid in 3D (A grid of points in x,y, and z). In order to study this function.
Of ...
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Calculate the intersection points of a line and a parametrically defined 3D surface
Thanks to Henrik Schumacher for advice to simplify the sample code:
I would be grateful for any pointers on the following issue.
A line from an external point intersects the surface at 2 points (...
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How to solve wave equation with finite elements when material properties vary continuously over a region
I am solving the one-dimensional wave equation over regions where the bulk modulus (and thus the wave speed) vary continuously over a region. The current version seems to assume that the material ...
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How to refine a linear FEM mesh in three regions?
I am trying to solve the one-dimensional wave equation with a frequency dependent source function over three intervals with varying velocity. I need to refine the mesh over the low velocity regions ...
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Automatic solution to label boundary elements with BoundaryMarkerFunction
Preparations
Mathematica 11.3, Windows.
Let us say I have a rectangular region with 10 little holes inside. Their coordinates are given by positionList. The ...
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Non-convex hull mesh from 3d points [duplicate]
I am trying to create a 3d mesh object from list of points, but the only options I see in Mathematica are ConvexHullMesh and ...
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Signed cell adjacency matrices (boundary operators)
In How to obtain the cell-adjacency graph of a mesh? there are some great answers that show how to obtain the cell adjacency matrix of a mesh. How would one generalize these to incorporate the ...
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Adjacent faces in a discrete mesh
I have a MeshRegion R and I want to extract all pairs of adjacent faces efficiently. The way that I've been computing this is demonstrated below:
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RegionMember does not work with RandomPolyhedron or Polyhedron object
According to the documentation RegionMember should work with regions that are true for ConstantRegionQ. However, the function ...
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Extracting points from 3D plot that lie along an arbitrarily oriented line
Starting from i.e. the following 3d plot:
d = RandomReal[1, {100, 3}];
ListPlot3D[d]
Is it possible to extract points that lay along an arbitrarily oriented line,...
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Set maximum space between elements in 3D mesh
A region in 3D space has been discretized to obtain a list of points.
The resulting ListPointPlot3D plot is:
I will like to obtain a mesh from these points, but ...
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Extra Lines in 3D ConvexHullMesh
I would like to make a picture of a truncated octahedron using ConvexHullMesh as follows:
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Given a cell in a Voronoi diagram, which point did it come from? [duplicate]
Given a set of points
pts = Table[{RandomReal[], RandomReal[]}, {i, 1, 10}];
and their Voronoi diagram
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Mesh quality error with interpolation of table
I am trying to interpolate a table of the following form.
{{x1,y1,z1},{x2,y2,z2}...}
Where z depends on x and y, and x ranges from 0.01 to 1 in steps of 0.01, ...
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Find surrounding vertices (simplexes) of a given point for DelaunayMesh
Generating a Delaunay triangulation of some random points:
pts = RandomReal[{-1, 1}, {50, 2}];
dm = DelaunayMesh[pts];
HighlightMesh[dm, Style[0, Black]]
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Create a tube from a section of a sphere using mesh
How does one make a meshed tube starting from a section of a sphere and later edit the tube's section parametrically.
