GRID2GRID

The grid2grid command converts a mesh with one element type to a mesh with another. The conversion type is determined by the second argument.

NOTE: Use of grid2grid to convert a 3D mesh to a tetrahedral mesh will in general result in a non-Delaunay tetrahedral mesh. If the target simulator is one that uses two-point flux approximation and Voronoi control volumes (FEHM, PFLOTRAN, TOUGH2) then using hextotet and then dump/stor to compute and output geometric coefficients, is not a good idea. If the ultimate goal is a a geometric coefficients file, one should use connect to connect vertices into a Delaunay mesh.

Note: Use of grid2grid to convert an octree refined hexahedral into to a tetrahedral mesh should not be done. You will get a result, however, no special algorithms are implemented to connect across interfaces where octree resolution changes and hanging nodes occur. One should instead copy the octree vertex set into a tet mesh object and use connect to create a tetrahedral mesh.

SYNTAX

grid2grid / ioption / [ cmo_sink ] / [ cmo_source ]

OPTIONS

ioption: is a character string that determines the element type of the source and sink meshes. There is no ‘default’ option - this argument must be specified.

  • quadtotri2   quad to 2 triangles, no new points.
  • prismtotet3   prism to 3 tets, no new points.
  • quattotri4   quad to 4 triangles, with one new point.
  • pyrtotet4   pyramid to 4 tets, with one new point.
  • hextotet5   hex to 5 tets, no new points.
  • hextotet6   hex to 6 tets, no new points.
  • prismtotet14   prism to 14 tets, four new points (1 + 3 faces).
  • prismtotet18   prism to 18 tets, six new points (1 + 5 faces).
  • hextotet24   hex to 24 tets, seven new points (1 + 6 faces).
  • tree_to_fe   quadtree or octree grid to grid with no parent-type elements to clean amr or octree structures.

[ cmo_snk / cmo_src ] are the mesh_object names for the new mesh to create and the source mesh object. cmo_src is the original grid. cmo_snk is the name for the new tet or triangle grid. These may be the same grid, if so desired. If both are left blank, the current mesh object will be used. If only one mesh name is given, it will be used at the sink mesh, and the current mesh object will be used as the source.

EXAMPLES

grid2grid / hextotet24 /  cmo_tet / cmo_hex

Convert each hex element in cmo_hex to 24 tets and name the new grid cmo_tet.

grid2grid / quadtotri4 /  new_mesh

No source mesh is given, so the current mesh object (which is a quad mesh) will have every quad converted into 4 triangles, and saved as new_mesh.

grid2grid / tree_to_fe / new_mesh /  octree_mesh

Parent elements in octree_mesh will be removed, so only the leaf elements remain. The result will be stored in new_mesh. This is often used to ensure a single valid mesh for other commands or for use outside of LaGriT. The octree attributes itetpar, itetkid, and itetlev will be updated in the new_mesh. A description of the octree mesh and attributes are described in the command refine