hexVol

Below is a demonstration of the features of the hexVol function

Contents

clear; close all; clc;

Syntax

[VE,L]=hexVol(E,V,absOpt);

Description

This function computes hexahedral element volumes. The input is the element description (E) and the nodes (V). The output is the element volumes (always positive) and a logic denoting wheter the element appears to be valid (1) or inverted (0).

Example: Computing the volume of hexahedral elements

Create example geometry for a set of 8 hexahedral elements, each with a volume of 1, the summed volume should therefore be 8.

%Creating a single hexahedron
X=[-1;  1; 1; -1; -1;  1; 1; -1;];
Y=[-1; -1; 1;  1; -1; -1; 1;  1;];
Z=[-1; -1;-1; -1;  1;  1; 1;  1;];
Vh=[X(:) Y(:) Z(:)];
Eh=1:8; %The hexahedral element

%Subdevided into 8 smaller elements
[E,V]=subHex(Eh,Vh,1);

Computing the volume

[VE]=hexVol(E,V)

VE =

     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1

The summed volume should be 8 for this cube

sum(VE)

ans =

     8

Visualize mesh and face normals

%Create patch data for plotting
[F,C]=element2patch(E,VE);

cFigure; hold on;
title('The elements colored based on volume, with face normals shown')
gpatch(F,V,C,'k',1);
patchNormPlot(F,V);
axisGeom; camlight headlight;
colormap spectral; colorbar;
drawnow;

Example: Handling negative volumes

Volumes are made absolute by default. To help detect inverted elements the optional input absOpt can be set to 0 to allow for negative volume output. In addition an output logicPositive can be requested which is true for postive volumes and false for negative volumes.

E_inverted=E; %Copy element set
E_inverted(1,:)=E_inverted(1,[5:8 1:4]); %Invert first element

%Inspect element volumes and logic
absOpt=1 %Output absolute volumes
[VE,logicPositive]=hexVol(E_inverted,V,absOpt)

absOpt=0 %Output may include negative volumes
[VE,logicPositive]=hexVol(E_inverted,V,absOpt)

absOpt =

     1


VE =

     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1


logicPositive =

  8×1 logical array

   0
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1


absOpt =

     0


VE =

    -1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1


logicPositive =

  8×1 logical array

   0
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1

Visualize mesh and face normals

%Create patch data for plotting
[F,C]=element2patch(E_inverted,VE);

cFigure; hold on;
title('The elements colored based on volume, with face normals shown')
gpatch(F,V,C,'k',0.5);
patchNormPlot(F,V);
axisGeom; camlight headlight;
colormap spectral; colorbar;
drawnow;

Example: A more complex hex mesh

%Control settings
optionStruct.sphereRadius=10;
optionStruct.coreRadius=5;
optionStruct.numElementsMantel=5;
optionStruct.numElementsCore=8;
optionStruct.makeHollow=0;
optionStruct.outputStructType=2;

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

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

absOpt=0; %Output may include negative volumes
VE=hexVol(E,V,absOpt);

Visualize mesh and face normals

%Create patch data for plotting
[F,C]=element2patch(E,VE);

cFigure; hold on;
title('The elements colored based on volume')
gpatch(F,V,C,'k',1);
axisGeom; camlight headlight;
colormap spectral; colorbar;
drawnow;

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