[Trilinos-Users] [EXTERNAL] writing programmatically-built STK mesh and skin to exodus files

[Sjaardema, Gregory D]

One method for skinning a mesh and generating a separate exodus file containing only the skin is to use the program “skinner” in packages/seacas/libraries/ioss/src/main/skinner.C.  It only handles meshes with continuum elements (hexes, tets; not beams or shells) and will create an output mesh consisting of just the skin of the model.

..Greg

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On 6/29/16, 12:47 PM, "Trilinos-Users on behalf of Roth, Philip C." <trilinos-users-bounces at trilinos.org on behalf of rothpc at ornl.gov> wrote:

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>Hello,
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>I am trying to build an STK mesh programmatically, and then output it to an Exodus file.  I've been at it longer than I care to admit, with little success, and feel like I'm missing something obvious.  Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction.
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>I want to define a volumetric mesh of tet4s and write it to an Exodus file.  By following examples in the STK distribution, I *think* I can successfully build the mesh using MetaData and BulkData objects.  After that, I'm at a loss as to how to write it to an Exodus file.  I've looked at using StkMeshIoBroker but can't see a way to associate my MetaData/BulkData objects with an output mesh.  I also can't see how to use Ioss classes/functions directly to output this mesh.  At one point, I thought I might be able to use Iogn to generate a mesh that I would throw away and replace with my own, but Iogn seems to be limited in the types of mesh elements it supports and tet4s aren't supported.
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>I also need to have the exposed faces of my mesh defined as face elements.  I've seen the examples on how to skin a mesh, and have done that successfully, but because of limitations in visit's handling of Exodus files I think I need these faces to be represented as a surface mesh in a separate file, not a sideset in the 3D mesh's file.  I can't see how to convert the sideset I get from skinning the mesh to a surface of triangles in 3D space, and write that out to an Exodus file.
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>Can anyone point me in the right direction for addressing either of these problems?
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>Regards,
>Phil Roth
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