NAG Library Routine Document
D06ACF
1 Purpose
D06ACF generates a triangular mesh of a closed polygonal region in , given a mesh of its boundary. It uses an Advancing Front process, based on an incremental method.
2 Specification
SUBROUTINE D06ACF ( |
NVB, NVINT, NVMAX, NEDGE, EDGE, NV, NELT, COOR, CONN, WEIGHT, ITRACE, RWORK, LRWORK, IWORK, LIWORK, IFAIL) |
INTEGER |
NVB, NVINT, NVMAX, NEDGE, EDGE(3,NEDGE), NV, NELT, CONN(3,2*NVMAX+5), ITRACE, LRWORK, IWORK(LIWORK), LIWORK, IFAIL |
REAL (KIND=nag_wp) |
COOR(2,NVMAX), WEIGHT(*), RWORK(LRWORK) |
|
3 Description
D06ACF generates the set of interior vertices using an Advancing Front process, based on an incremental method. It allows you to specify a number of fixed interior mesh vertices together with weights which allow concentration of the mesh in their neighbourhood. For more details about the triangulation method, consult the
D06 Chapter Introduction as well as
George and Borouchaki (1998).
This routine is derived from material in the MODULEF package from INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique).
4 References
George P L and Borouchaki H (1998) Delaunay Triangulation and Meshing: Application to Finite Elements Editions HERMES, Paris
5 Parameters
- 1: NVB – INTEGERInput
On entry: the number of vertices in the input boundary mesh.
Constraint:
.
- 2: NVINT – INTEGERInput
On entry: the number of fixed interior mesh vertices to which a weight will be applied.
Constraint:
.
- 3: NVMAX – INTEGERInput
On entry: the maximum number of vertices in the mesh to be generated.
Constraint:
.
- 4: NEDGE – INTEGERInput
On entry: the number of boundary edges in the input mesh.
Constraint:
.
- 5: EDGE(,NEDGE) – INTEGER arrayInput
On entry: the specification of the boundary edges. and contain the vertex numbers of the two end points of the th boundary edge. is a user-supplied tag for the th boundary edge and is not used by D06ACF.
Constraint:
and , for and .
- 6: NV – INTEGEROutput
On exit: the total number of vertices in the output mesh (including both boundary and interior vertices). If , no interior vertices will be generated and .
- 7: NELT – INTEGEROutput
On exit: the number of triangular elements in the mesh.
- 8: COOR(,NVMAX) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
On entry: contains the coordinate of the th input boundary mesh vertex, for .
contains the coordinate of the th fixed interior vertex, for . For boundary and interior vertices,
contains the corresponding coordinate, for .
On exit: will contain the coordinate of the th generated interior mesh vertex, for ; while will contain the corresponding coordinate. The remaining elements are unchanged.
- 9: CONN(,) – INTEGER arrayOutput
On exit: the connectivity of the mesh between triangles and vertices. For each triangle
, gives the indices of its three vertices (in anticlockwise order), for and .
- 10: WEIGHT() – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput
-
Note: the dimension of the array
WEIGHT
must be at least
.
On entry: the weight of fixed interior vertices. It is the diameter of triangles (length of the longer edge) created around each of the given interior vertices.
Constraint:
if , , for .
- 11: ITRACE – INTEGERInput
On entry: the level of trace information required from D06ACF.
- No output is generated.
- Output from the meshing solver is printed on the current advisory message unit (see X04ABF). This output contains details of the vertices and triangles generated by the process.
You are advised to set , unless you are experienced with finite element mesh generation.
- 12: RWORK(LRWORK) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayWorkspace
- 13: LRWORK – INTEGERInput
On entry: the dimension of the array
RWORK as declared in the (sub)program from which D06ACF is called.
Constraint:
.
- 14: IWORK(LIWORK) – INTEGER arrayWorkspace
- 15: LIWORK – INTEGERInput
On entry: the dimension of the array
IWORK as declared in the (sub)program from which D06ACF is called.
Constraint:
.
- 16: IFAIL – INTEGERInput/Output
-
On entry:
IFAIL must be set to
,
. If you are unfamiliar with this parameter you should refer to
Section 3.3 in the Essential Introduction for details.
For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value
is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value
is recommended. Otherwise, if you are not familiar with this parameter, the recommended value is
.
When the value is used it is essential to test the value of IFAIL on exit.
On exit:
unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see
Section 6).
6 Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry
or
, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by
X04AAF).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
On entry, | , |
or | , |
or | , |
or | , |
or | or , for some and , |
or | , for some , |
or | if , , for some ; |
or | , |
or | . |
An error has occurred during the generation of the interior mesh. Check the definition of the boundary (arguments
COOR and
EDGE) as well as the orientation of the boundary (especially in the case of a multiple connected component boundary). Setting
may provide more details.
7 Accuracy
Not applicable.
The position of the internal vertices is a function position of the vertices on the given boundary. A fine mesh on the boundary results in a fine mesh in the interior. During the process vertices are generated on edges of the mesh
to obtain the mesh
in the general incremental method (consult the
D06 Chapter Introduction or
George and Borouchaki (1998)).
You are advised to take care to set the boundary inputs properly, especially for a boundary with multiply connected components. The orientation of the interior boundaries should be in clockwise order and opposite to that of the exterior boundary. If the boundary has only one connected component, its orientation should be anticlockwise.
9 Example
In this example, a geometry with two holes (two wings inside an exterior circle) is meshed using a Delaunay–Voronoi method. The exterior circle is centred at the point with a radius , the first wing begins at the origin and it is normalized, finally the last wing is also normalized and begins at the point . To be able to carry out some realistic computation on that geometry, some interior points have been introduced to have a finer mesh in the wake of those airfoils.
The boundary mesh has
vertices and
edges (see
Figure 1 top). Note that the particular mesh generated could be sensitive to the
machine precision and therefore may differ from one implementation to another.
9.1 Program Text
Program Text (d06acfe.f90)
9.2 Program Data
Program Data (d06acfe.d)
9.3 Program Results
Program Results (d06acfe.r)
Figure 1: The boundary mesh (top), the interior mesh (bottom) of a
double wing inside a circle geometry