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Create a mesh¶

import openturns as ot
import openturns.viewer as viewer
from matplotlib import pylab as plt
import math as m

ot.Log.Show(ot.Log.NONE)

Creation of a regular grid¶

In this first part we demonstrate how to create a regular grid. Note that a regular grid is a particular mesh of $\mathcal{D}=[0,T] \in \mathbb{R}$ .

Here we assume it represents the time $t$ as it is often the case, but it can represent any physical quantity.

A regular time grid is a regular discretization of the interval $[0, T] \in \mathbb{R}$ into $N$ points, noted $(t_0, \dots, t_{N-1})$ .

The time grid can be defined using $(t_{Min}, \Delta t, N)$ where $N$ is the number of points in the time grid. $\Delta t$ the time step between two consecutive instants and $t_0 = t_{Min}$ . Then, $t_k = t_{Min} + k \Delta t$ and $t_{Max} = t_{Min} + (N-1) \Delta t$ .

Consider $X: \Omega \times \mathcal{D} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ a multivariate stochastic process of dimension $d$ , where $n=1$ , $\mathcal{D}=[0,T]$ and $t\in \mathcal{D}$ is interpreted as a time stamp. Then the mesh associated to the process $X$ is a (regular) time grid.

We define a time grid from a starting time tMin, a time step tStep and a number of time steps n.

tMin = 0.0
tStep = 0.1
n = 10
time_grid = ot.RegularGrid(tMin, tStep, n)

We get the first and the last instants, the step and the number of points :

start = time_grid.getStart()
step = time_grid.getStep()
grid_size = time_grid.getN()
end = time_grid.getEnd()
print("start=", start, "step=", step, "grid_size=", grid_size, "end=", end)

start= 0.0 step= 0.1 grid_size= 10 end= 1.0

We draw the grid.

time_grid.setName("time")
graph = time_grid.draw()
graph.setTitle("Time grid")
graph.setXTitle("t")
graph.setYTitle("")
view = viewer.View(graph)

Creation of a mesh¶

In this paragraph we create a mesh $\mathcal{M}$ associated to a domain $\mathcal{D} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ .

A mesh is defined from vertices in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and a topology that connects the vertices: the simplices. The simplex $Indices([i_1,\dots, i_{n+1}])$ relies the vertices of index $(i_1,\dots, i_{n+1})$ in $\mathbb{N}^n$ . In dimension 1, a simplex is an interval $Indices([i_1,i_2])$ ; in dimension 2, it is a triangle $Indices([i_1,i_2, i_3])$ .

The library enables to easily create a mesh which is a box of dimension $d=1$ or $d=2$ regularly meshed in all its directions, thanks to the object IntervalMesher.

Consider $X: \Omega \times \mathcal{D} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ a multivariate stochastic process of dimension $d$ , where $\mathcal{D} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ . The mesh $\mathcal{M}$ is a discretization of the domain $\mathcal{D}$ .

A one dimensional mesh is created and represented by :

vertices = [[0.5], [1.5], [2.1], [2.7]]
simplicies = [[0, 1], [1, 2], [2, 3]]
mesh1D = ot.Mesh(vertices, simplicies)
graph1 = mesh1D.draw()
graph1.setTitle("One dimensional mesh")
view = viewer.View(graph1)

We define a bidimensional mesh :

vertices = [[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.0], [1.0, 1.0], [1.5, 1.0], [2.0, 1.5], [0.5, 1.5]]
simplicies = [[0, 1, 2], [1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 4], [2, 4, 5], [0, 2, 5]]
mesh2D = ot.Mesh(vertices, simplicies)
graph2 = mesh2D.draw()
graph2.setTitle("Bidimensional mesh")
graph2.setLegendPosition("bottomright")
view = viewer.View(graph2)

We can also define a mesh which is a regularly meshed box in dimension 1 or 2. We define the number of intervals in each direction of the box :

myIndices = [5, 10]
myMesher = ot.IntervalMesher(myIndices)

We then create the mesh of the box $[0, 2] \times [0, 4]$ :

lowerBound = [0.0, 0.0]
upperBound = [2.0, 4.0]
myInterval = ot.Interval(lowerBound, upperBound)
myMeshBox = myMesher.build(myInterval)
mygraph3 = myMeshBox.draw()
mygraph3.setTitle("Bidimensional mesh on a box")
view = viewer.View(mygraph3)

It is possible to perform a transformation on a regularly meshed box.

myIndices = [20, 20]
mesher = ot.IntervalMesher(myIndices)
# r in [1., 2.] and theta in (0., pi]
lowerBound2 = [1.0, 0.0]
upperBound2 = [2.0, m.pi]
myInterval = ot.Interval(lowerBound2, upperBound2)
meshBox2 = mesher.build(myInterval)

We define the mapping function and draw the transformation :

f = ot.SymbolicFunction(["r", "theta"], ["r*cos(theta)", "r*sin(theta)"])
oldVertices = meshBox2.getVertices()
newVertices = f(oldVertices)
meshBox2.setVertices(newVertices)
graphMappedBox = meshBox2.draw()
graphMappedBox.setTitle("Mapped box mesh")
view = viewer.View(graphMappedBox)

Finally we create a mesh of a heart in dimension 2.

def meshHeart(ntheta, nr):
    # First, build the nodes
    nodes = ot.Sample(0, 2)
    nodes.add([0.0, 0.0])
    for j in range(ntheta):
        theta = (m.pi * j) / ntheta
        if abs(theta - 0.5 * m.pi) < 1e-10:
            rho = 2.0
        elif (abs(theta) < 1e-10) or (abs(theta - m.pi) < 1e-10):
            rho = 0.0
        else:
            absTanTheta = abs(m.tan(theta))
            rho = absTanTheta ** (1.0 / absTanTheta) + m.sin(theta)
        cosTheta = m.cos(theta)
        sinTheta = m.sin(theta)
        for k in range(nr):
            tau = (k + 1.0) / nr
            r = rho * tau
            nodes.add([r * cosTheta, r * sinTheta - tau])
    # Second, build the triangles
    triangles = []
    # First heart
    for j in range(ntheta):
        triangles.append([0, 1 + j * nr, 1 + ((j + 1) % ntheta) * nr])
    # Other hearts
    for j in range(ntheta):
        for k in range(nr - 1):
            i0 = k + 1 + j * nr
            i1 = k + 2 + j * nr
            i2 = k + 2 + ((j + 1) % ntheta) * nr
            i3 = k + 1 + ((j + 1) % ntheta) * nr
            triangles.append([i0, i1, i2 % (nr * ntheta)])
            triangles.append([i0, i2, i3 % (nr * ntheta)])
    return ot.Mesh(nodes, triangles)


mesh4 = meshHeart(48, 16)
graphMesh = mesh4.draw()
graphMesh.setTitle("Bidimensional mesh")
graphMesh.setLegendPosition("")
view = viewer.View(graphMesh)

Display figures

plt.show()

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 2.519 seconds)

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