Mesh generation

You can generate a mesh from a set of points or from a set of edges.

Mesh generation from a set of edges

We start from a mesh containing only edges (the acdcBdy.mesh file)

Initial set of deges

Initial set of deges

To generate a mesh containing this edges, we just need to run the mmg2d application. Because we don’t want to smooth the font used, we specify a sharp angle detection of 10° using the -ar option:

mmg2d_O3 -ar 10 acdcBdy.mesh

We obtain the following mesh:

acdcNoHmax

Generated mesh with a sharp angle detection of 10°

Note that mmg meshes the internal subdomains created by the edges. By default, all subdomains are saved. You can choose to keep only one subdomain using the -nsd option.

Finer mesh generation

To generate a finer mesh we can specify a maximal edge size value using the -hmax option. The mesh bounding box is of size 500×200 thus we impose a maximale edge size of 10:

mmg2d_O3 -ar 10 -hmax 10 acdcBdy.mesh
Generated mesh for a maximal edge size of 10

Generated mesh for a maximal edge size of 10 and without the non wanted subdomains

Mesh generation from a set of points

In our example, our initial mesh file (the square.mesh file) contains only points (it is represented figure 1).

Figure 1: Set of points from which we want to generate a mesh

Figure 1: Set of points from which we want to generate a mesh

To generate a mesh of the convex hull of those points, you just need to run the mmg2d application:

mmg2d_O3 square.mesh

We obtain the mesh represented figure 2.

squareDefault

Figure 2: Mesh generation from a set of points

Here we have created a mesh containing all the initial vertices, then, the mesh has been optimized (as no option or size map is provided, we seek to have a high mesh quality with a minimal number of vertices).

Preservation of the initial points

You can keep your initial points using the -noinsert, -noswap and -nomove arguments:

mmg2d_O3 square.mesh -noinsert -nomove -noswap

The resulting mesh is represented figure 3.

Figure 3: Generation of a mesh from a set of points with preservation of this points

Figure 3: Generation of a mesh from a set of points with preservation of this points

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