AdaptiveMeshControl object

The AdaptiveMeshControl object is used to control various aspects of Arbitrary Lagrangian Eularian (ALE) style adaptive smoothing and advection algorithms applied to an ALE adaptive mesh domain.

The following topics are discussed:

Access

import step
mdb.models[name].adaptiveMeshControls[name]

AdaptiveMeshControl(...)

This method creates an AdaptiveMeshControl object.

Path

mdb.models[name].AdaptiveMeshControl

Required arguments

name

A String specifying the name of the object.

Optional arguments

remapping

A SymbolicConstant specifying the remapping algorithm. Possible values are FIRST_ORDER_ADVECTION and SECOND_ORDER_ADVECTION. The default value is SECOND_ORDER_ADVECTION.

smoothingAlgorithm

A SymbolicConstant specifying the type of smoothing algorithm to use. Possible values are STANDARD and GEOMETRY_ENHANCED. The default value is GEOMETRY_ENHANCED.

smoothingPriority

A SymbolicConstant specifying the type of smoothing to perform. Possible values are UNIFORM and GRADED. The default value is UNIFORM.

initialFeatureAngle

A Float specifying the initial geometric feature angle, θI, in degrees. Possible values are 0° ≤θI≤ 180°. The default value is 30.0.

transitionFeatureAngle

A Float specifying the transitional feature angle, θT, in degrees. Possible values are 0° ≤θT≤ 180°. The default value is 30.0.

momentumAdvection

A SymbolicConstant specifying the type of momentum advection algorithm. Possible values are ELEMENT_CENTER_PROJECTION and HALF_INDEX_SHIFT. The default value is ELEMENT_CENTER_PROJECTION.

meshingPredictor

A SymbolicConstant specifying the nodal starting location to use for remeshing. Possible values are CURRENT and PREVIOUS. The default value is CURRENT.

curvatureRefinement

A Float specifying the solution dependence weight, αC. Possible values are 0.0 ≤αC≤ 1.0. The default value is 1.0.

volumetricSmoothingWeight

A Float specifying the weight used by Abaqus/Explicit for the volumetric smoothing method. The default value is 1.0.

laplacianSmoothingWeight

A Float specifying the weight for the Laplacian smoothing method. The default value is 0.0.

equipotentialSmoothingWeight

A Float specifying the weight for the equipotential smoothing method. The default value is 0.0.

meshConstraintAngle

A Float specifying the initial geometric feature angle, θC. Possible values are 0° ≤θC≤ 180°. The default value is 60.0.

originalConfigurationProjectionWeight

A Float specifying the weight for the original configuration projection method. The default value is 1.0.

standardVolumetricSmoothingWeight

A Float specifying the weight used by Abaqus/Standard for the volumetric smoothing method. The default value is 0.0.

Return value

An AdaptiveMeshControl object.

Exceptions

RangeError.

setValues(...)

This method modifies the AdaptiveMeshControl object.

Required arguments

None.

Optional arguments

The optional arguments to setValues are the same as the arguments to the AdaptiveMeshControl method, except for the name argument.

Return value

None.

Exceptions

RangeError.

Members

The AdaptiveMeshControl object has members with the same names and descriptions as the arguments to the AdaptiveMeshControl method.