diff --git a/doc/gmsh.html b/doc/gmsh.html index 4e69d62ca90eb06adc1c1c8299efea09de4424c1..edc73f8cd90f31326076d79d295a3fd7bb1a248f 100644 --- a/doc/gmsh.html +++ b/doc/gmsh.html @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ text file makes it possible to automate all treatments (loops, tests and external access methods permit advanced scripting capabilities). A brief description of the four modules is given hereafter. -<a name="geometry"></a> -<h3>Geometry: geometrical entity definition</h3> +<h3><a name="geometry"></a>Geometry: geometrical entity definition</h3> Geometries are created in a bottom-up flow by successively defining points, oriented curves (segments, circles, ellipses, splines, etc.), @@ -66,8 +65,7 @@ the ASCII input files. The scripting possibilities (with loops, tests, arrays of variables, etc.) allow fully parametrized definitions of all geometrical entities. -<a name="mesh"></a> -<h3>Mesh: finite element mesh generation</h3> +<h3><a name="mesh"></a>Mesh: finite element mesh generation</h3> A finite element mesh is a tessellation of a given subset of R<sup>3</sup> by elementary geometrical elements of various shapes (in @@ -81,15 +79,15 @@ vertices (which allows the orientation of all their lower order geometrical entities) but no predefined relation is assumed between any two elementary elements. <p> -The procedure follows the same order as for the geometry creation: -curves are discretized first; the mesh of the curves is then used to -mesh the surfaces; then the mesh of the surfaces is used to mesh the -volumes. This automatically assures the continuity of the mesh when, -for example, two surfaces share a common curve. Every meshing step is -constrained by the characteristic length field, which can be uniform, -specified by characteristic length associated to elementary -geometrical entities, or associated to another mesh (the background -mesh). +The mesh generation is performed in the same order as the geometry +creation: curves are discretized first; the mesh of the curves is then +used to mesh the surfaces; then the mesh of the surfaces is used to +mesh the volumes. This automatically assures the continuity of the +mesh when, for example, two surfaces share a common curve. Every +meshing step is constrained by the characteristic length field, which +can be uniform, specified by characteristic length associated to +elementary geometrical entities, or associated to another mesh (the +background mesh). <p> For each meshing step (i.e. the discretization of lines, surfaces and volumes), all structured mesh directives are executed first, and serve @@ -117,8 +115,7 @@ characteristic length field evaluated at the center of its circumscribed circle/sphere. </ol> -<a name="solver"></a> -<h3>Solver: external solver interface</h3> +<h3><a name="solver"></a>Solver: external solver interface</h3> External solvers can be interfaced with Gmsh through a socket mechanism, which permits to easily launch computations either locally @@ -126,8 +123,7 @@ or on remote computers, and to collect and exploit the simulation results within Gmsh. The only solver currently interfaced is <A HREF="/getdp/">GetDP</A>. -<a name="post-processing"></a> -<h3>Post-processing: scalar and vector field visualization</h3> +<h3><a name="post-processing"></a>Post-processing: scalar and vector field visualization</h3> Multiple post-processing scalar or vector maps can be loaded and manipulated (globally or individually) along with the geometry and the @@ -216,14 +212,13 @@ in order for Gmsh to find the libraries. <h2>Credits</h2> Gmsh is developed by <A -HREF="mailto:Remacle@scorec.rpi.edu">Jean-François Remacle</A> -(currently with the <a href="http://www.rpi.edu">Rensselaer -Polytechnic Institute</a>) and <A HREF="mailto:Christophe.Geuzaine@ulg.ac.be">Christophe Geuzaine</A> (currently with the <a href="http://www.ulg.ac.be">University of -Liège</a>). Please use <A -HREF="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</A> instead of our personal -e-mails to send questions or bug reports! +Liège</a>) and <A HREF="mailto:Remacle@scorec.rpi.edu">Jean-François +Remacle</A> (currently with the <a +href="http://www.rpi.edu">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a>). +Please use <A HREF="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</A> instead of +our personal e-mails to send questions or bug reports! <h2>Gallery</h2> @@ -272,7 +267,7 @@ Back to <a href="/">geuz.org</a>. <p> -$Date: 2001-10-13 07:45:49 $ +$Date: 2001-10-13 08:56:10 $ </BODY> </HTML>