freefem++_msh_io

freefem++_msh_io, a FORTRAN77 code which reads and writes files used by the FreeFem++() finite element program to store mesh information.

Note that the GMSH() program creates mesh files that use the ".msh" extension, but which are an entirely different format.

The msh file format is obliquely described in section 12.5 of the FreeFem++ documentation.

At least for the 2D case of a triangular mesh, the format seems to be as follows:

  1. a single line giving NV, NE, NT, the number of vertices, boundary edges, and triangles
  2. NV lines, each containing the (X,Y) coordinates and integer label for a node.
  3. NT lines, each containing three vertex indices and integer label for a triangle.
  4. NE lines, each containing two vertex indices and integer label for a boundary edge.
The "labels" seem to be "0" for interior objects and 1 for boundary objects. All edges are boundary objects. (This might not be true. A geometry might include internal edges, and perhaps these count as interior objects, but definitely, the edge list does not include arbitrary triangle edges, only those on the boundary.) All triangles are interior objects. Vertices may be boundary or interior objects.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

freefem++_msh_io is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

freefem++_msh_io_test

bamg, examples which illustrate the use of BAMG, a program for generating 2D meshes that can be used to define the geometry for the the finite element package FREEFEM++.

FREEFEM++, examples which illustrate the use of the FREEFEM++ package, a high-level integrated development environment for the numerical solution of nonlinear multiphysics partial differential equations (PDE's) in 2D and 3D.

FREEFEM++_MSH, a data directory which contains examples of the mesh files created by the FreeFem++ program, which use the extension ".msh".

MITCHELL_FREEFEM++, examples which illustrate the implementation of the Mitchell 2D elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) test problems using FREEFEM++.

Reference:

  1. Frederic Hecht,
    New development in FreeFem++,
    Journal of Numerical Mathematics,
    Volume 20, Number 3-4, 2012, pages 251-265.
  2. Frederic Hecht,
    BAMG: Bidimensional Anisotropic Mesh Generator,
    draft version v1.00, December 2006.

Source Code:

Last revised on 05 October 2023.