FE Shell Mesh

Mesh, Scalar Field, Surface Mesh Shape Enum, Geometric Order Enum, Scalar, Scalar, Scalar

Create an FE Mesh of shell elements from an input surface mesh. This function will remesh the input surface mesh to generate FEA quality elements.

Name	Type	Description
Domain	Mesh	The input domain defined by a watertight surface mesh. The input surface mesh will be remeshed to obtain FEA quality elements.
Edge length	Scalar Field	The target edge length of the elements. Note that the input can be a Scalar Field to achieve a spatially varying mesh size.
Shape	Surface Mesh Shape Enum	The desired element shape.
Geometric order	Geometric Order Enum	The geometric order of the output mesh. The linear option may be suitable for a fast analysis, but quadratic elements are recommend when accuracy is more important. For quadratic elements, the mid-side nodes are inserted along the straight edges of the elements. That is, the quadratic elements are not curved.
Span angle	Scalar	The maximum spanning angle for elements on a curved surface. The smaller this angle the more elements will be generated to conform to a curved input.
Growth rate	Scalar	The rate at which the size of adjacent elements can grow.
Feature angle	Scalar	The angle used to automatically detect feature angles in the input domain that will be preserved in the output mesh.

Type
FE Mesh

Create an FE Mesh of shell elements from an input surface mesh. This function will remesh the input surface mesh to generate FEA quality elements.

Name	Type	Description
Domain	Mesh	The input domain defined by a watertight surface mesh. The input surface mesh will be remeshed to obtain FEA quality elements.
Edge length	Scalar Field	The target edge length of the elements. Note that the input can be a Scalar Field to achieve a spatially varying mesh size.
Shape	Surface Mesh Shape Enum	The desired element shape.
Geometric order	Geometric Order Enum	The geometric order of the output mesh. The linear option may be suitable for a fast analysis, but quadratic elements are recommend when accuracy is more important. For quadratic elements, the mid-side nodes are inserted along the straight edges of the elements. That is, the quadratic elements are not curved.
Span angle	Scalar	The maximum spanning angle for elements on a curved surface. The smaller this angle the more elements will be generated to conform to a curved input.
Growth rate	Scalar	The rate at which the size of adjacent elements can grow.
Feature angle	Scalar	The angle used to automatically detect feature angles in the input domain that will be preserved in the output mesh.

Type
FE Mesh

Create an FE Mesh of shell elements from an input surface mesh. This function will remesh the input surface mesh to generate FEA quality elements.

Name	Type	Description
Domain	Mesh	The input domain defined by a watertight surface mesh. The input surface mesh will be remeshed to obtain FEA quality elements.
Edge length	Scalar Field	The target edge length of the elements. Note that the input can be a Scalar Field to achieve a spatially varying mesh size.
Shape	Surface Mesh Shape Enum	The desired element shape.
Geometric order	Geometric Order Enum	The geometric order of the output mesh. The linear option may be suitable for a fast analysis, but quadratic elements are recommend when accuracy is more important. For quadratic elements, the mid-side nodes are inserted along the straight edges of the elements. That is, the quadratic elements are not curved.
Span angle	Scalar	The maximum spanning angle for elements on a curved surface. The smaller this angle the more elements will be generated to conform to a curved input.
Growth rate	Scalar	The rate at which the size of adjacent elements can grow.
Feature angle	Scalar	The angle used to automatically detect feature angles in the input domain that will be preserved in the output mesh.

Type
FE Mesh