Define a geometric region from a set of surfaces by logically combining surfaces names.
REGION is used together with SURFACE and MREGION to set mesh object geometry and materials.
See Examples below.
Defining a region will cause the information associated with this geometry region to be stored under the name of the geometry of the current mesh object. Releasing the region will remove this information.
The defined mesh object geometry can be named with the GEOMETRY command.
region/ region_name/ region_operators region/ region_name/ release
To define a geometry region, use operators with surfaces according to the following rules.
The operators or, and, and not mean union, intersection, and complement respectively and are applied to surfaces.
Parentheses are operators and are used for nesting.
Spaces are required to separate operators and parentheses.
The operators lt, le, gt, and ge are applied to mesh object surfaces according to the following rules:
lt if the surface following is a volume then lt means inside not including the surface of the volume. If the surface is a plane or a sheet lt means the space on the side of the plane or sheet opposite to the normal not including the plane or sheet itself.
le if the surface following is a volume then le means inside including the surface of the volume. If the surface is a plane or a sheet le means the space on the side of the plane or sheet opposite to the normal including the plane or sheet itself.
gt if the surface following is a volume then gt means outside not including the surface of the volume. If the surface is a plane or a sheet gt means the space on the same side of the plane or sheet as the normal not including the plane or sheet itself.
ge if the surface following is a volume then ge means outside including the surface of the volume. If the surface is a plane or a sheet ge means the space on the same side of the plane or sheet as the normal including the plane or sheet itself.
Internal interfaces should be included in exactly one region (using le and ge).
In the event of conflicting region commands, the one occurring last in the input stream takes precedence.
region/reg1/ le sphere1 and ( lt plane1 or gt plane2 )
region/reg2/ le sphere1 and ( ge plane1 and le plane2 )
region/reg1/release
Define regions named reg1 and reg2 inside sphere1 and relative to plane1 and plane2. Release the regions named reg1.
cmo/create/cmo
surface/outside/reflect/box/0,0,0/3,2,1
region/all/le outside
mregion/all/le outside
createpts/xyz/3,3,3/0,0,0/3,2,1/1,1,1
setpts
connect
Very simple application of the region and mregion commands to create a single material box shaped mesh.
# Define geometry
cmo / select / CMO_IN
geometry / create / stack_geom
# define surfaces for CMO_IN
cmo / select / CMO_IN
surface / s0 /reflect / sheet / mo0
surface / s1 /reflect / sheet / mo1
surface / s2 /reflect / sheet / mo2
surface / s3 /reflect / sheet / mo3
surface / s4 /reflect / sheet / mo4
surface / s5 /reflect / sheet / mo5
surface / s6 /reflect / sheet / mo6
# define geometry regions
# all internal interfaces are defined
# and are included once only
region / r_below / le s0
region / r1 / ge s0 and lt s1
region / r2 / ge s1 and lt s2
region / r3 / ge s2 and lt s3
region / r4 / ge s3 and lt s4
region / r5 / ge s4 and lt s5
region / r6 / ge s5 and lt s6
region / r_above / ge s6
# define material regions
# internal interfaces not included
mregion / mr_below / lt s0
mregion / mr1 / gt s0 and lt s1
mregion / mr2 / gt s1 and lt s2
mregion / mr3 / gt s2 and lt s3
mregion / mr4 / gt s3 and lt s4
mregion / mr5 / gt s4 and lt s5
mregion / mr6 / gt s5 and lt s6
mregion / mr_above / gt s6
# Finished building geometry
Define geometry and material regions based on surface grids read into mesh objects named mo0, mo1, … mo6. The result are regions stacked in layers such that nodes found equal to surface s0 are the interface nodes between regions r1 and r2. Nodes between surfaces s0 and s1 are in region r1 and have the material labeled mr1. And so on. This mesh geometry has the name stack_geom.