From b8e9a23a10ba89f19e9feb3549aa748288303c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:35:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add more warnings about the robustness of the 2D aniso and 3D algorithms. --- doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi index 33236188fc..229d5a6bca 100644 --- a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi +++ b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ \input texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*- -@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.72 2003-07-07 16:43:46 geuzaine Exp $ +@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.73 2003-07-19 23:35:44 geuzaine Exp $ @c @c Copyright (C) 1997-2003 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle @c @@ -491,8 +491,8 @@ commands and command arguments to depend on previous calculations (see @item generate 1D, 2D and 3D simplicial (i.e.@: using line segments, triangles and tetrahedra) finite element meshes. The performance of the 1D and 2D -algorithms is pretty good; the 3D algorithm is still somewhat experimental -and slow (see @ref{Mesh module}, and @ref{Tutorial}); +algorithms is pretty good; the 3D algorithm is still experimental and slow +(see @ref{Mesh module}, and @ref{Tutorial}); @item specify target element sizes accurately. Gmsh provides several mechanisms to control the size of the elements in the final mesh: through interpolation @@ -561,6 +561,11 @@ conforming in the sense of finite element meshes; the user has no control over the quality of the mesh elements generated by the 3D unstructured algorithm; @item +the 2D anisotropic and the 3D unstructured algorithms are still experimental +and not very robust. If these algorithms fail, try to change some +characteristic lengths to generate meshes that better suit the geometrical +details of the structures; +@item Gmsh was designed to solve academic test-cases, not industrial-size problems. You may find that Gmsh is too slow for large problems (with thousands of geometric primitives, or millions of mesh/post-processing -- GitLab