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Old   February 9, 2007, 13:04
Default cell centroid computation
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How does fluent compute cell centroids?

Looking in some of their header files, it seems, for a hexahedral cell the formula for (x-coordinate) of centroid is:

0.125*( sum(x-position of nodes) )

However, using this formula, I don't get same result as using the macro C_CENTROID(c,t).

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