Hi Prof. Bangerth, Thanks for the reply.
Best, Pranshul. On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 12:01:24 AM UTC-4 Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: > On 5/16/23 12:52, Pranshul Thakur wrote: > > > > I am currently implementing a test case of optimization-based meshing > where > > the mesh nodes are moved to obtain an optimal mesh. As the mesh can get > > distorted during the process, I am looking for a way to collapse > distorted > > elements during optimization. > > > > Does anyone know if there is a way to perform local mesh operations such > as > > diagonal collapse or other equivalents of edge swapping/node > insertion/removal > > for quadrilateral meshes through deal.II? > > This is not easily possible in deal.II. deal.II is not a meshing tool -- > it > assumes that the logical connections of the mesh remain unchanged, even > though > it can move vertices around. > > > > I am also looking for a way to > > interpolate the solution after these mesh operations. > > That, too, is difficult. FEFieldFunction can do some of this, but it's > expensive. There are likely more efficient tools for this step, outside of > deal.II, if you have large meshes and want to interpolate from one mesh to > another. > > Best > W. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wolfgang Bangerth email: bang...@colostate.edu > www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ > > > -- 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/856581be-8d4a-4a5a-8fff-c4583d7d2598n%40googlegroups.com.
