From: Shengli X. <she...@gm...> - 2006-02-19 05:46:27
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Hello, Quad9 is used in my program. Why the element type in the gmv result file is Quad4? Is it correct? Best Regards! ShengliXu |
From: Roy S. <roy...@ic...> - 2006-02-19 16:55:32
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On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Shengli Xu wrote: > Quad9 is used in my program. Why the element type in the gmv result file is > Quad4? Is it correct? It's not correct, but it may be the best we can do. GMV doesn't support Quad9 elements, so for GMV output we refine each of them into four Quad4 elements. This usually looks okay (just a little less smooth than it ought to) for uniform meshes, but it can make solutions on adaptive meshes look discontinuous when they really aren't. --- Roy |