mymesh.mesh.mesh.identify_type

mesh.identify_type()

Classify the mesh as either a surface or volume. A mesh is classified as a volume mesh (‘vol’) if any elements are unambiguous volume elements - pyramid (5 nodes), wedge (6), hexahedron (8), or if any of a random sample of 10 elements (or all elements if NElem < 10) has a volume less than machine precision (np.finfo(float).eps). Alternatively, a surface mesh (‘surf’) is identified if any of the elements is a triangle (3 nodes). In the case of a mesh containing both triangular and volume elements, the mesh will be classified arbitrarily by whichever appears first in NodeConn.

This approach has a chance of mislabeling the mesh in some rare or non-standard scenarios, but attempts to be as efficient as possible to minimize overhead when creating a mesh. Potentially ambiguous meshes are:

• Meshes containing both triangular elements and volume elements (this should generally be avoided as most functions aren’t set up to handle that case).

• Tetrahedral meshes with many degenerate elements with abs(vol) < machine precision.

• Quadrilateral meshes with non-planar elements.

In such cases, Type should be specified explicitly when creating the mesh object.

Returns:

Type – Mesh type, either ‘surf’, ‘vol’, or ‘empty’.

Return type:

str