[petsc-users] Gmsh 8-noded quadrilateral

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:12 AM Susanne Claus <susanne.claus at onera.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using DMPlex for the mesh structure of a solid mechanics finite
> element code. I mainly use gmsh as input file format. When I try to read in
> 8-noded Quadrilaterals (Element type 16 in gmsh) DMPlex tells me that this
> element type is unknown. However a 9-noded Quadrilateral can be read
> without problem. On inspecting the plexgmsh.c source code I can see that
> 8-noded quadrilaterals are deactivated:
>
> #if 0146:   {20, GMSH_TRI, 2, 3, 3,  9, NULL},147:   {16, GMSH_QUA, 2, 2, 4,  8, NULL},
>
> For our application these 8-noded quadrilateral are very important.
>
> Is there any reason why they have not been implemented/deactivated in the dmplex gmsh reader?
>
> No, we can handle them in the same way I think. Let me look at it.
Hopefully it is easy.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Thank you for all the great work you are doing. PETSc is amazing.
>
> Best wishes,
> Susanne Claus
>
>

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