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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi everyone,<br>
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I'd like to ask you a question about the Dune Grid Format (DGF) and the ordering of the corners in an element of the mesh.<br>
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Suppose I put my vertices and my simplices in a dgf file, and then I use it to feed the grid constructor (Alberta, ALUGRID, whatever).<br>
In the online documentation about the DGF, under the field "Simplex", I read that "no ordering of local vertices is required".<br>
In my particular case, however, I do need a special ordering, since I'm dealing with hypersurfaces. To set an example: if you have the unit cube as initial geometry, I need that, looking from outside, all the triangles have corners counter-clockwise oriented
s.t. the unit normal points outward. I do need that this ordering (used in .dgf file) is preserved!<br>
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Is there any way of knowing whether this important information is preserved? Otherwise, the computation of the normal to each triangle could lead to weird results (strong nonsymmetric time-dependent behaviour for initial symmetric configurations).<br>
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Thanks for your help!<br>
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Andrea<br>
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Andrea Sacconi<br>
PhD student, Applied Mathematics<br>
AMMP Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,<br>
London SW7 2AZ, UK<br>
a.sacconi11@imperial.ac.uk<br>
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