Dear list

I'm developing a FEM solver, and recently integrated a routine to read gmsh .msh files. The FEM solver uses hierarchical meshes to enable fast solvers (multigrid preconditioning). For this reason I prefer to start with a coarse mesh (generated by gmsh) and to let my code refine this mesh.

In order to deal with curved geometry in the refinement, it is common practise to project the new surface points onto their (curved) geometry. Since I didn't find a simple means to do so with gmsh directly, I modified one of the api-demos to this end. See attached files (which I keep in the utils/api_demos directory).

This routine reads a file with a list of points and associated geometry tags. Then it uses the
  edge->closestPoint
and
  face->closestPoint
methods, to project these points onto their respective geometry. The result is then written to file again, for the FE solver to read.
So far this seems to be working fine. (See below for a performance example.)

A few comments/questions:

1. I'd be glad if some gmsh developers could comment on the code.
(Is there a better way to achieve this?)

2. My attempts in the CMakeList.txt to create a statically linked version all failed. Any suggestions on this?

3. I provide these files under same license as gmsh in the hope that this can be integrated into future releases of gmsh. I suggest the utils/api_demos folder.

4. Is it easily possible to influence the accuracy of the projection? I had a look on some of the code for closestPoint and noticed that this is done in an iterative way, with fairly loose stoping criterion. In the future I might be interested in differentiating the node positions with respect to geometry parameters. These derivatives could easily be approximated by finite differences. However, the projection accuracy is critical then.

5. Are there some error-flags in case the projection goes wrong? For one geometry
  http://www.opencascade.org/ex/att/15_cylinder_head.brep.gz
from
  http://www.opencascade.org/showroom/shapegallery/gal4/
I had problems with a some of the sub-geometries, which were projected to the origin. Even though I got no error messages or similar.


Regards

Rene


P.S.: As a sample of the performance:

Poisson equation in 3D domain with curved boundary from
   http://www.opencascade.org/ex/att/31_misc2.brep.gz
We use gmsh to create a coarse mesh of 7,334 nodes, P1 elements. The finest mesh so far has 21,909,034 nodes. Solution on this finest mesh is computed in 15m34.028s including file write of solution for paraview. :)

Visualisation (paraview):
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rens/software/feins/examples/full/31_misc2_lvl4_21909034_nodes_s.png
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rens/software/feins/examples/full/31_misc2_lvl4_21909034_nodes_swe_large.png





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      Dr. Rene Schneider

      TU Chemnitz, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik,
      09107 Chemnitz, Germany

      Besucheradresse / Visitor address:
      Reichenhainer Str. 41 / Raum 625
      09126 Chemnitz, Germany

      Tel.: +49-371-531-33953
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      [email protected]

      http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rens

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#include <stdio.h>
#include "Gmsh.h"
#include "GModel.h"
#include "MElement.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  GmshInitialize(argc, argv);

  if (argc<5)
    {
      fprintf(stderr,"\n%s: needs at least 4 arguments, "
              "usage\n  %s name.geo name.msh querry.qrx output.pnt\n", argv[0], 
argv[0]);
      exit(1);
    }

  GModel *m = new GModel();
  m->readGEO(argv[1]); 
  m->readMSH(argv[2]);

  /* open querry file for reading */
  FILE *querry = fopen(argv[3], "r");
  if (querry == NULL)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s: couldn't open querry file: %s\n",
              argv[0],argv[3]);
      exit(1);          
    }

  FILE *output = fopen(argv[4], "w");
  if (output == NULL)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s: couldn't open output file: %s\n",
              argv[0],argv[4]);
      exit(1);          
    }

  /* expected querry format:
  k-number-line-points
  index1 line-tag current-x current-y current-z
  ...
  indexk line-tag current-x current-y current-z
  m-number-face-points
  index1 face-tag current-x current-y current-z
  ...
  indexm face-tag current-x current-y current-z
  [EOF]

  output format is the same, but without face-tag
  */
  int i, numEdgePoints, numFacePoints, nnread;

  nnread = fscanf(querry,"%d", &numEdgePoints);
  if (nnread!=1)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s: error reading number of edges in file: %s\n",
              argv[0], argv[3]);
      exit(1);          
    }
  fprintf(output,"%d\n", numEdgePoints);
  for (i=0; i<numEdgePoints; i++)
    {
      int id, lineTag, nread;
      double qx,qy,qz;
      
      nread = fscanf(querry,"%d %d %le %le %le ", &id, &lineTag, &qx, &qy, &qz);

      if (nread!=5)
        {
          fprintf(stderr, "%s: error reading %d-th edge entry in file: %s\n",
                  argv[0], i+1, argv[3]);
          exit(1);              
        }

      GEdge *eg = m->getEdgeByTag(lineTag);
      SPoint3 qpoint(qx,qy,qz);
      double param;

      GPoint closest = eg->closestPoint(qpoint, param);

      fprintf(output,"%d  %25.16e %25.16e %25.16e\n",
              id, closest.x(), closest.y(), closest.z());
    }

  nnread = fscanf(querry,"%d", &numFacePoints);
  if (nnread!=1)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s: error reading number of face in file: %s\n",
              argv[0], argv[3]);
      exit(1);          
    }
  fprintf(output,"%d\n", numFacePoints);
  for (i=0; i<numFacePoints; i++)
    {
      int id, faceTag, nread;
      double qx,qy,qz;

      nread = fscanf(querry,"%d %d %le %le %le ", &id, &faceTag, &qx, &qy, &qz);

      if (nread!=5)
        {
          fprintf(stderr, "%s: error reading %d-th face entry in file: %s\n",
                  argv[0], i+1, argv[3]);
          exit(1);              
        }

      GFace *fc = m->getFaceByTag(faceTag);
      SPoint3 qpoint(qx,qy,qz);

      double initialguess[2] = {0.0, 0.0};
      GPoint closest = fc->closestPoint(qpoint, initialguess);

      fprintf(output,"%d  %25.16e %25.16e %25.16e\n",
              id, closest.x(), closest.y(), closest.z());
    }
  delete m;
  GmshFinalize();

  exit(0);
}
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6 FATAL_ERROR)

# if CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is specified use it; otherwise set the default
# build type to "RelWithDebInfo" ("-O2 -g" with gcc) prior to calling
# project()
if(DEFINED CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
  set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} CACHE STRING "Choose build type")
else(DEFINED CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
  set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE RelWithDebInfo CACHE STRING "Choose build type")
endif(DEFINED CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)

project(api_demos CXX)

add_subdirectory(../.. "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/gmsh")

include_directories(../../Common ../../Numeric ../../Geo ../../Mesh 
   ../../Solver ../../Post ../../Plugin ../../Graphics ../../contrib/ANN/include
   ../../contrib/DiscreteIntegration ${GMSH_EXTERNAL_INCLUDE_DIRS}
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/gmsh/Common)

if(APPLE)
  set(glut "-framework GLUT")
else(APPLE)
  set(glut "glut")
endif(APPLE)

add_executable(mainAntTweakBar mainAntTweakBar.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainAntTweakBar shared AntTweakBar ${glut})

add_executable(mainCartesian mainCartesian.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainCartesian shared)

add_executable(mainElasticity mainElasticity.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainElasticity shared)

add_executable(mainGlut mainGlut.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainGlut lib ${GMSH_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES} ${glut})

add_executable(mainHomology mainHomology.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainHomology shared)

add_executable(mainLevelset mainLevelset.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainLevelset shared)

add_executable(mainOcc mainOcc.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainOcc shared)

add_executable(mainPost mainPost.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainPost shared)

add_executable(mainSimple mainSimple.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainSimple shared)

add_executable(mainFEINStest mainFEINStest.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainFEINStest shared)

add_executable(gmsh_closest_points_shared gmsh_closest_points.cpp)
target_link_libraries(gmsh_closest_points_shared shared)

add_executable(gmsh_closest_points_static gmsh_closest_points.cpp)
target_link_libraries(gmsh_closest_points_static lib ${GMSH_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES} 
${LINK_LIBRARIES})

message("gmsh_src: " ${GMSH_SRC})
add_executable(gmsh_closest_points_src gmsh_closest_points.cpp ${GMSH_SRC})
target_link_libraries(gmsh_closest_points_src ${LINK_LIBRARIES})
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