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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I’m using Gmsh since 2 month and I want to mesh a very complex geometry – am cylinder filled with many small spheres.
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">My question is: it is possible that the Gmsh version for Linux works different to the Gmsh version for windows. Both are Version: 2.4.2 and
when I run my geo.file with the same options for the mesh, I got different meshes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">My Mesh Option:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">2D algorithm: Frontal<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">3D algorithm: Frontal<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Subdivison algorithm: None<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Smoothing Steps: 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Element size factor: 4.08<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Calibri">Minimum element size: 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri">Maximum element size: 1e+0223
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Element order: 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use incomplete high order elements: deactivated<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">With the windows version I got a 3Dmesh with 10024 tetrahedrons. The number of tetrahedral with the Linux version is 51953!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Another problem is: I need the meshes to import in COMSOL, a simulation software. The meshes, I generated with the Windows version will be good
analyzed in COMSOL instead of the mesh generated with the Linux version.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Does anybody know about a different between these two versions?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thank you in advanced and best regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Verena Krupp<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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