Christophe, Thanks for the response. Don't I need to treat them as volumes so that I can assign them different materials in my solver? I'm using Elmer, btw.
Drew On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Christophe Geuzaine <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01 Oct 2014, at 22:23, Drew D <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a composite stackup with alternating thin & thick layers. The > thick ones are are rougly 10x the thickness of the thin ones, and the > aspect ratio is on the order of 100:1. The mesh for something like this is > always huge. Is there a way to treat the thin layers as 2D shells, while > keeping the thicker ones 3D? The model is being exported as a STEP file and > brought into Gmsh. > > > > Just include the surfaces in your model; Gmsh generates conformal meshes > so this internal surface can then be treated as a thin layer in your > solver. If you need duplicated nodes on the surface (which Gmsh normally > does not generate), you can run Plugin(Crack) on the resulting mesh. > > > > Thanks, > > Drew > > _______________________________________________ > > gmsh mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh > > -- > Prof. Christophe Geuzaine > University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science > http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine > > > >
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