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mscheng November 12, 2012 22:22

How to mesh in a cylinder?
 
I want to generate mesh in a cylinder, and how to?

vbchris November 21, 2012 21:26

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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