Periodic Mesh

Pietro Toniolo
Pietro Toniolo Altair Community Member
edited August 15 in Community Q&A

I have a complex mesh taken from 2D reconstruction of a unit cell, so the file comes as an stl. The geometry is characterized by some planar faces that bound the unit cell. I want to apply periodic boundary conditions for homogenization purposes, thus I need a periodic mesh in which at each node of a face corresponds a node on the opposite face. How can I impose this? Thanks!

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  • GTT Johan
    GTT Johan
    Altair Employee
    edited August 15

    Hi Pietro
    In Hypermesh we have a tool that is denoted Periodic mesh, easiest way to access it is from the search menu in the upper right!
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    I hope this can help!

    You could also try to mesh your device in Altair Simlab which also support periodic meshing, in video below @2.20min the functionality is mentioned
     Meshing in SimLab for Electromagnetic Applications (youtube.com)

    Hope this can help!
    Kind regards
    //Johan

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