Hi. I am considering deal.ii for some nonlinear elasticity and fracture analysis. >From what I read in the documentation, deal.ii supports hexahedral elements much better than tetrahedral elements. My geometry looks as shown in the attached picture. The actual geometry is a boolean difference of a big sphere and a small sphere. But to exploit symmetry I am considering only one-eighth of the sphere.
I am struggling to create a mesh that has only hexahedral elements. The best I was able to attain was a vast majority of the elements were hexahedral but there were some prism elements at the poles. Therefore, my question is can I use prism elements in deal.ii? (Or if there is a clever way to mesh this geometry with just hexahedral elements kindly let me know.) Regards, Amit -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/cd269727-64aa-4079-b261-657e9dc0248an%40googlegroups.com.
