Test Mesh: Test 3

Purpose of Project

These meshes were developed in support of the Arctic Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE-Arctic) Project and LANL Laboratory Directed project LDRD20120068DR. These two projects share a need for high quality computational meshes for use in fine-scale modeling of thermal hydrology in ice-wedge polygon landscapes.

This mesh is based on the mesh from Test 2 with different coordinates for the points:

1 0.0 0.0 5.0
2 0.0 1.0 5.0
3 1.0 0.0 5.0

Test 1 uses the following layers:

  -----------------
  1 moss           .02 (2 x .01)
  2 upper organic  .18 (9 x .02)
  3 upper mineral  .18 (9 x .02)
  4 lower organic  .12 (6 x .02)
  5 lower mineral  .5 (20 x .025)
  6 deep mineral   ~49.00 (variable)
  -----------------

Full Stacked Mesh 6 material layers with bottom at -45

Full Stacked Mesh with Ice Wedge Cut to show internal materials

Test Mesh Input Parameters

General Description

Following layer definitions :

• Layer 1 (top) is the live organic layer and should be 2 cm thick with 2 cells.
• Add a third organic layer such that all combined are still 48 cm thick with 24 cells (2cm each).
• Top organic and mineral layer are the same. Thickness is 18 cm with 9 cells.
• Lowest organic layer is about 3/4 the thickness of upper 2 layers. Set thickness to 12 cm with 6 cells.
• The bottom Materials 5 and 6 are both mineral soils with higher resolution at the top of the mineral soil.
• The domain bottom should be flat at Z = -45.

Outside Boundaries (Exodus side sets)

The side sets defined are top, bottom, and sides (corresponding to the 4 sectors within 45 degrees of each direction).

Output Mesh Description

Output is a stacked prism mesh written as two Exodus files; a single material mesh and a multi-material Mesh with 7 materials (6 layers plus the Ice Wedge). Files are written in formats; Exodus II (.exo), AVS (.inp), and GMV (.gmv)
Final Mesh files: mesh_fsets.exo, mesh_fsets.gmv, mesh_fsets.inp
Final Mesh with single material: mesh_fsets_1mat.exo, mesh_fsets_1mat.gmv, mesh_fsets_1mat.inp

Mesh Element Type:             prism
Mesh Software Used: LaGriT, ExodusII

Total nodes:       396       
Total elements:    131     
Total Volume:      0.2500000E+02      

from file write_exo.out.txt:
Mesh Extents (Meters):
        MIN              MAX             DIFFERENCE    
 x   0.000000000E+00  1.000000000E+00 1.000000000E+00
 y   0.000000000E+00  1.000000000E+00 1.000000000E+00
 z  -4.500000000E+01  5.000000000E+00 5.000000000E+01     

from file write_exo.out.txt:
SUMMARY VOLUME/AREA METERS of ELEMENT COLORS (BLOCKS) 
Color    Num. Elements   Volume          Fractional Volume                    
    1           2          0.9999990E-02     0.000400000
    2           9          0.8999991E-01     0.003599997
    3           9          0.9000015E-01     0.003600006
    4           6          0.5999994E-01     0.002399998
    5          20          0.2500000E+00     0.010000000
    6          85          0.2450000E+02     0.980000000       

from file stack_full_poly.out.txt:
SUMMARY ELEVATIONS at LAYER TOPS (METERS)
        MIN          MAX       DIFF MAX below (thickness)   
    1  5.000000000  5.000000000   .02
    2  4.980000000  4.980000000   .18
    3  4.800000000  4.800000000   .18
    4  4.620000000  4.620000000   .12
    5  4.500000000  4.500000000   .50
    6  4.000000000  4.000000000  49.00 
      (Bottom is flat at -45.0)

Mesh Layer Definitions (meters)
ID Layer Name Layer Thick Layer Vertical Cells Layer Volume 1 moss(top) 0.02 2 x .01 0.9999990E-02 2 upper organic 0.18 9 x .02 0.8999991E-01 3 upper mineral 0.18 9 x .02 0.9000015E-01 4 lower organic 0.12 6 x .02 0.5999994E-01 5 lower mineral 0.50 20 x .025 0.2500000E+00 6 deep mineral 49.00 50 x 0.1 10 x 0.4 10 x 1 15 x 2  0.2450000E+02

Boundary Side Sets
Top and Bottom: neon-pink top (num_side_ss2) has 1 faces neon-green bottom (num_side_ss1) has 1 faces

Project Archive Location

Full Set of files:

/scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_3 

LaGriT faceset files with elem number and face (*.faceset):
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus  112 Feb 10 16:49 fs_1_bot.faceset
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus  110 Feb 10 16:49 fs_2_top.faceset
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 1413 Feb 10 16:49 fs_5_lef.faceset
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 1413 Feb 10 16:49 fs_6_fro.faceset

Mesh and faceset files for 6 Materials (mesh_fsets.*):
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 19676 Feb 10 16:49 mesh_fsets.exo
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 42908 Feb 10 16:49 mesh_fsets.gmv
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 49757 Feb 10 16:49 mesh_fsets.inp

Mesh and faceset files for 1 Material (mesh_fsets_1mat.*):
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 18032 Feb 10 16:49 mesh_fsets_1mat.exo
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 42388 Feb 10 16:49 mesh_fsets_1mat.gmv
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 49361 Feb 10 16:49 mesh_fsets_1mat.inp

LaGriT output files contain information reported during the run (*.out.txt):
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus   4963 Feb 10 16:49 get_boundary_pts.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus   4313 Feb 10 16:49 get_poly_surf.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus   7243 Feb 10 16:49 interpolate.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus   7573 Feb 10 16:49 merge_polys.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus   5546 Feb 10 16:49 process_lidar.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus   3748 Feb 10 16:49 set_zeroz.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 358858 Feb 10 16:49 stack_full_poly.out.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus  75976 Feb 10 16:49 write_exo.out.txt

Mesh images:
/scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_3/images

Input Data files:

 /scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_3/input/

-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus    54 Feb 10 15:31 lidar_site3.inp
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus    58 Feb 10 15:31 poly10001.avs

Main Work Directory for Polygon Meshing Method:

 /scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/

Links to Images and Project Details

Input and Output Files Running LaGriT to create the Mesh

These are LaGriT input (.lgi) and output (outx3dgen) files used in creating this mesh. The output files provide good information about the data and mesh, including min and max values of mesh attributes.
The complete set of scripts and input files are in /scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_3. The output files for various mesh versions are in /scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/.

1: Create and stack layers into full mesh (stack_full_poly.lgi)     Input       Output

2: Create facesets and write final Exodus files (write_exo.lgi)     Input       Output

 

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