dihedralAngles

Below is a demonstration of the features of the dihedralAngles function

Syntax
Description
Examples
Example 1: Studing dihedral angles for a basic hexahedral mesh
Example 2:

clear; close all; clc;

Syntax

| [A]=dihedralAngles(E,V,elementType);|

Description

This function computes the dihedral angles A for the input elements defined by E, the element nodal connectivity matrix, and V, the node or vertex coordinate matrix. The output array A contains the same number of rows as E (a row for each element), and contains m columns where m is the number of edges for this type of element (e.g. 12 for a hexahedral element or 6 for a tetrahedral element).

Examples

Plot settings

fontSize=20;
faceAlpha1=0.8;

Example 1: Studing dihedral angles for a basic hexahedral mesh

Create mesh for a box

boxDim=2*ones(1,3);
boxEl=3*ones(1,3);
[meshStruct]=hexMeshBox(boxDim,boxEl);
E=meshStruct.E;
V=meshStruct.V;

Deformed into a sheared cube

d=eye(3,3);
d(1,2)=1;
V=V*d;

[A,EE,AE]=dihedralAngles(E,V,'hex8');
A=180*(A./pi);
AE=180*(AE./pi);

A_max=max(A,[],2);
A_min=min(A,[],2);

[F,A_max_F]=element2patch(E,A_max);
[~,A_min_F]=element2patch(E,A_min);

cFigure;
subplot(1,2,1); hold on;
title(['Max dihedral angle ',num2str(max(A_max_F))])
gpatch(F,V,A_max_F,'k',1,1);
axisGeom; camlight headlight;
colormap(gca,gjet(25)); colorbar;
clim([min(A(:)) max(A(:))]);

subplot(1,2,2); hold on;
title(['Min dihedral angle ',num2str(min(A_min_F))])
gpatch(F,V,A_min_F,'k',1,1);
axisGeom; camlight headlight;
colormap(gca,gjet(25)); colorbar;
clim([min(A(:)) max(A(:))]);
gdrawnow;

Example 2:

% Creating a  heme-sphere hexahedral mesh

%Control settings
optionStruct.sphereRadius=1;
optionStruct.coreRadius=optionStruct.sphereRadius/2;
optionStruct.numElementsMantel=6;
optionStruct.numElementsCore=optionStruct.numElementsMantel*2;
optionStruct.outputStructType=2;
optionStruct.makeHollow=0;
optionStruct.cParSmooth.n=25;


% %Creating sphere
[meshStruct]=hexMeshHemiSphere(optionStruct);

% Access model element and patch data
Fb=meshStruct.facesBoundary;
Cb=meshStruct.boundaryMarker;
V=meshStruct.nodes;
E=meshStruct.elements;

[A,EE,AE]=dihedralAngles(E,V,'hex8');
A=180*(A./pi);
AE=180*(AE./pi);

A_max=max(A,[],2);
A_min=min(A,[],2);

Visualize mesh

hFig=cFigure; hold on;
title('$A_{min}$','FontSize',fontSize,'Interpreter','latex');

gpatch(Fb,V,'kw','none',0.25); %Boundary as transparent

optionStruct.hFig=hFig;
meshStruct.elementData=A_min;
meshView(meshStruct,optionStruct);
axisGeom(gca,fontSize);
gdrawnow;


hFig=cFigure; hold on;
title('$A_{max}$','FontSize',fontSize,'Interpreter','latex');
gpatch(Fb,V,'kw','none',0.25);

optionStruct.hFig=hFig;
meshStruct.elementData=A_max;
meshView(meshStruct,optionStruct);

axisGeom(gca,fontSize);
drawnow;

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