Test Mesh: Test 5

Grid Team Member: Lucia Short
Test Mesh: Test 5: column with flat top
Data Source: 3 points
Delivered To: Scott Painter
Date Completed: March 17, 2013
T5 Mesh:   378 Nodes and  125 Cells
T4 Mesh:   387 Nodes and  128 Cells
T3 Mesh:   396 Nodes and  131 Cells
T2 Mesh:   396 Nodes and  131 Cells
T1 Mesh:   291 Nodes and  96 Cells

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.

Thest 5 is the same as Test 4 with the layer 1 (moss) removed. Test 5 uses the following layers:

  -----------------
  1 moss           .02 (2 x .01) (removed)
  2 upper organic  .12 (6 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
5 material layers with bottom at -45

LaGriT Finite Element Mesh

Full Stacked Mesh with Ice Wedge
Cut to show internal materials

LaGriT Finite Element Mesh

Test Mesh Input Parameters

General Description

Following layer definitions :

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:       381       
Total elements:    126     
Total Volume:      0.2400000E+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 4.980000019E+00 4.998000002E+01 from file write_exo.out.txt: SUMMARY VOLUME/AREA METERS of ELEMENT COLORS (BLOCKS) Color Num. Elements Volume Fractional Volume 2 6 0.5999994E-01 0.002400958
3 9 0.9000015E-01 0.003601447
4 6 0.5999994E-01 0.002400958
5 20 0.2500000E+00 0.010004002
6 85 0.2453000E+02 0.981592636 from file stack_full_poly.out.txt: SUMMARY ELEVATIONS at LAYER TOPS (METERS) MIN MAX DIFF MAX below (thickness) 2 4.980000000 4.980000000 .12 3 4.860000000 4.860000000 .18 4 4.680000000 4.680000000 .12 5 4.560000000 4.560000000 .50 6 4.060000000 4.060000000 49.06 (Bottom is flat at -45.0)
Mesh Layer Definitions (meters)

ID Layer Name Layer
Thick
Layer
Vertical Cells
Layer
Volume
2 upper organic 0.18 9 x .02 0.5999994E-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 
0.2453000E+02
LaGriT Finite Element Mesh

Boundary Side Sets

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


LaGriT Finite Element 
Mesh


Project Archive Location

Full Set of files:

/scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_5 

LaGriT faceset files with elem number and face (*.faceset):
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus  112 Mar 17 13:40 fs_1_bot.faceset
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 111 Mar 17 13:40 fs_2_top.faceset
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 1363 Mar 17 13:40 fs_5_lef.faceset
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 1363 Mar 17 13:40 fs_6_fro.faceset Mesh and faceset files for 6 Materials (mesh_fsets.*): -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 18748 Mar 17 13:40 mesh_fsets.exo
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 41220 Mar 17 13:40 mesh_fsets.gmv
-rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 47877 Mar 17 13:40 mesh_fsets.inp Mesh and faceset files for 1 Material (mesh_fsets_1mat.*): -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 17432 Mar 17 13:40 mesh_fsets_1mat.exo -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 40788 Mar 17 13:40 mesh_fsets_1mat.gmv -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 47496 Mar 17 13:40 mesh_fsets_1mat.inp LaGriT output files contain information reported during the run (*.out.txt): -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 4963 Mar 17 13:40 get_boundary_pts.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 4313 Mar 17 13:40 get_poly_surf.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 7243 Mar 17 13:40 interpolate.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 7573 Mar 17 13:40 merge_polys.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 5546 Mar 17 13:40 process_lidar.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 3748 Mar 17 13:40 set_zeroz.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 344072 Mar 17 13:40 stack_full_poly.out.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 lucia sftus 74672 Mar 17 13:40 write_exo.out.txt Mesh images: /scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_5/images

Input Data files:

 /scratch/sft2/lucia/grid_gen/arctic/column_5/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


Gallery of All Project Images

Method Description Overview (from V01)

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_5. 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

 




Grid Team Contacts

Carl Gable <gable -at- lanl -dot- gov> 505-665-3533
Terry Miller <tamiller -at- lanl -dot- gov> 505-667-8009
Lucia Short <lucia -at- lanl -dot- gov> 505-665-7957