[Dune] Gmsh reader crashes when using the grid factory read for ALUSimpleGRid<3, 3> with boundary id

[Oswald Benedikt]

Hi ALU Developers, I am mildly suprised about your comments.

Wouldn't it be good to provide different methods for mesh input into ALUGrid quite soon,
particularly when there is a need from users ?

This is not about deprecating DGF, by the way, be assured!

I might add that, here, we use probably dozens of grids that we created in GMSH
and then, with some effort, convert into the DGF format, which we still plan rto use intensively.

Anyway, the documentation of Dune::GridFactory< ALUSimplexGrid< 3, 3 > > Class Template Reference
(http://www.dune-project.org/doc/doxygen/dune-grid-html/classDune_1_1GridFactory_3_01ALUSimplexGrid_3_013_00_013_01_4_01_4.html#_details)
says that the method virtual void

"insertBoundarySegment (const std::vector< unsigned int > vertices, const BoundarySegment< dimension, dimworld > *boundarySegment)
 	Method to insert an arbitrarily shaped boundary segment into a coarse grid. "

is here. 

That is the source of my quite convinced feeling that it should be available.


More, or even most, importantly, reading large meshes from the DGF format, may not be ultra-fast after all.

When I say large, I mean 10^5 or more tetrahedral elements. This is the size of the meshes that we have to cope
with here when running electromagnetic simulations and I think for ALUGrid to be relevant in the future
it must address users's needs.

After all, I have always believed that DUNE and its external libraries are
a great achievement, meant to be capable of solving today's and tomorrow's large problems.


Have a great day! Benedikt











>S#624 - [Dune] Gmsh reader crashes when using the grid factory read for ALUSimpleGRid<3, 3> with boundary id
>User who did this - Robert Klöfkorn (robertk)

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>This feature is not supported yet. I don't know you got the feeling that it is implemented. There will be an anouncement on the mailing list when the gmsh boundary ids are supported. Until then: DON'T USE IT !!! 




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