Order of faces of a cell
 

Dear Foamers

Currently i can access the faces of a cell with mesh.cells()[cellnumber]. This would output the cell along with the faces. But i required to know the order of the faces.

For example mesh.cells()[0] gives 6(0 1 6 10 12 16). Can i somehow recognize which is the front, back, left, right, top, bottom face from this.

Thanks in advance

Best
Ankith

Hello Ankith,

There is no order for the faces. For a mesh cell, front, back, left... don't have meaning. Further, for a cell, it could be polyhedron, where it can have more than 6 faces. There is no way to use front, back...for the cell.

Cell face has function to compute face norm vector, which you may use if direction is important.

Thanks Charles for the information.
As i am working on a mesh convertor from OpenFoam to KIVA 4 I required this information.