patchThick

Below is a demonstration of the features of the patchThick function

Contents

Syntax

[E,VE,Fq1,Fq2]=patchThick(F,V,dirSet,layerThickness,numSteps);

Description

Use patchThick to thicken a quadrilateral mesh to create hexahedral elements.

clear; close all; clc;

Examples

PLOT SETTINGS

fontSize=20;

Example: Using patchThick to thicken quads into hexahedra

Creating an example polygon

ns=15;
t=linspace(0,pi,ns);
x=cos(t);
y=sin(t);
z=zeros(size(x));
Vc=flipud([x(:) y(:) z(:)]);

Extruding polygon to a quadrilateral surface

cPar.depth=2;
cPar.patchType='quad';
cPar.dir=0;
cPar.closeLoopOpt=0;
cPar.numSteps=8;
[F,V]=polyExtrude(Vc,cPar);

Thickening quadrilaterial elements to hexahedral elements

layerThickness=0.5;
numSteps=3;
[E,VE]=patchThick(F,V,1,layerThickness,numSteps);

%Use element2patch to get patch data
FE=element2patch(E);

Visualize mesh

cFigure; hold on;
title('Hexahedral mesh');
gpatch(FE,VE,'bw','k',1);
axisGeom;
camlight headlight;
drawnow;

Example: Using patchThick to thicken triangles into pentahedra

Create test data set

[F,V,C]=hemiSphereMesh(1,1,0);
V(:,3)=-V(:,3);
F=fliplr(F);

Thickening quadrilaterial surface to hexahedral elements

layerThickness=0.4;
numSteps=2;
[E,VE,Fq1,Fq2]=patchThick(F,V,1,layerThickness,numSteps);

%Use element2patch to get patch data
FE=element2patch(E,[],'penta6');

Visualize mesh

cFigure; hold on;
title('Pentahedral mesh');
gpatch(FE,VE,'bw','k',1);
% patchNormPlot(FE,VE);
axisGeom;
camlight headlight;
drawnow;

Example: Using patchThick to thicken a mixed mesh of quads and triangles

Create test data set

[F,V,C]=hemiSphereMesh(1,1,0);
V(:,3)=-V(:,3);
F=fliplr(F);

Convert to mixed mesh

optionStruct.maxAngleDeviation=90*(pi/180);
optionStruct.selectionMethod='best';
optionStruct.triangleConvert=0;
optionStruct.fourConnectConvert=0;
[F,V]=tri2quadGroupSplit(F,V,optionStruct);

Thickening quadrilaterial surface to hexahedral elements

layerThickness=0.4;
numSteps=2;
[E,VE,Fq1,Fq2]=patchThick(F,V,1,layerThickness,numSteps);

%Use element2patch to get patch data
FE=E;
for q=1:1:numel(E)
    if size(E{q},2)==6
        elementType='penta6';
    elseif size(E{q},2)==8
        elementType='hex8';
    end
    FE{q}=element2patch(E{q},[],elementType);
end

Visualize mesh

cFigure; hold on;
title('Mixed hexahedral-pentahedral mesh');
for q=1:1:numel(FE)
    gpatch(FE{q},VE,'bw','k',1);
end
% patchNormPlot(FE,VE);
axisGeom;
camlight headlight;
drawnow;

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