(Thanks to GBor and Dengr1 for trying to help me with this)
Well, ALGOR tech support succeeded in finding an answer to what was going on, but I'm not all that thrilled with it. Basically, they are saying that the all tetrahedral mesh gives a large amount of mesh (or method?) discretization...
I just looked at the figure again, and I think perhaps the confusion is regarding the shape of the surface mesh elements. The middle figure is the Bricks only one, but the elements it shows look hexagonal. In contrast, the mixed case (bottom figure) look more brick-like. I don't know why the...
GBor,
Thank you for your reply. The labels are correct, but are probably not quite descriptive enough:
- The top figure is meshed with the "Tetrahedra only" option inside the Model Mesh Settings Options dialog, in combination with setting Element Type to Tetrahedron. This figure shows a...
Hello,
I'm new to ALGOR, and I'm trying to do something that's giving me rather unusual results. Ultimately, I want to model the transient heat distribution of a round mirror that is being struck by a laser beam. As a first step, I have started by creating a hockey-puck shaped cylinder in...
