> On 29 Mar 2020, at 12:24, Sabrina Zacarias <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am a bit confused with the output of the meshing of my model and would 
> really appreciate a piece of advise:
> 
> My geometry consists of an axial section of a cylinder (which plays the role 
> of the air surrounding my model ) containing several (sections of) rings, 
> which are electrodes, plus two (sections of ) disks, which are the cathode 
> and anode. The fact that these are sections and not complete cylindrical 
> pieces is to make the meshing faster. And the post processing software can 
> handle it.
> 
> Anyway, In the real model  I need to use ~200 electrodes.  So far I have not 
> been able to achieve a mesh without errors. I get ‘Unable to recover the edge 
> XX on curve XX (on surface XX )’, and also   ’No elements in volume XX’. 
> 

With Nel = 200 your geometry is invalid (it auto-intersects), whereas with Nel 
= 20 it is correct.

Christophe


> What I find confusing is that when I reduce the number of electrodes x10 
> lower, without changing anything else, the meshing is correct. 
> 
> I am obviously missing something or not approaching the problem the right 
> way. I attach the .geo files if someone could please take a look. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sabrina
> 
> <3d_main.geo>
> <f_box.geo>
> <f_electrode.geo>
> <f_plates.geo>
> 
> — 
> Sabrina Zacarias
> Institut für Kernphysik
> Technische Universität Darmstadt
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> 
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> 
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