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Old   November 12, 2012, 22:22
Default How to mesh in a cylinder?
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I want to generate mesh in a cylinder, and how to?
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Old   November 21, 2012, 21:26
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I just did some work with this.
I found a good way to prevent skew near the center is to mesh a square in the center and then two block on adjacent faces of the original block with arc'ed outer edges.
I assumed axi-symmetric geometry and only meshed 1/4 of the cylinder.
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