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meshsweep<br />

• There can only be one source face and one target face per subdomain.<br />

• The source face and target face for a subdomain must be opposite one another in<br />

the subdomain's topology.<br />

• The cross section along the direction of the sweep for a subdomain must be<br />

topologically constant.<br />

Each face about a subdomain to be swept is classified as either a source face, a target<br />

face, or a boundary face. The boundary faces are the faces linking the source and<br />

target face. The sweep algorithm can handle subdomains with multiple boundary<br />

faces in the sweep direction.<br />

If any of the faces about a subdomain is meshed prior to the meshsweep operation,<br />

the following must be fulfilled.<br />

• If the source and target faces are meshed, these meshes must match.<br />

• Mapped quad meshes must be applied to the boundary faces.<br />

Algorithm<br />

The subdomains to be meshed are processed in the following order.<br />

1 The subdomains where the source and/or target faces are specified are swept first.<br />

These subdomains are swept in the order of increasing subdomain number.<br />

2 The remaining subdomains, with no specified source face or target face but with<br />

one adjacent meshed face, are swept in the order of increasing subdomain<br />

number.<br />

3 Finally, the remaining subdomains, with no specified source face or target face<br />

and with none or several adjacent meshed faces, are swept in the order of<br />

increasing subdomain number.<br />

When a swept has been generated for a subdomain, the source face of the next<br />

subdomain, that is, the subdomain adjacent to the target face of the current<br />

subdomain, is set to the target face of the current subdomain if the source and target<br />

faces for the next subdomain are not specified.<br />

For a subdomain with no specified source and target face, the source face is<br />

determined according to the following.<br />

1 If not any face about the subdomain is meshed, the software determines the<br />

opposite face pairs for the subdomain. An opposite face pair is a pair of faces about<br />

the subdomain that are not adjacent to each other but to all other faces about the<br />

subdomain. The face in these face pairs with lowest geometric degree and face<br />

index is used as source face and the opposite face is used as target face. If no<br />

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