vmtkboundarylayer
Description
create a prismatic boundary layer from a surface mesh and a set of vectors defined on the nodes
Input arguments
| Argument | Variable | Type | Length | Range | Default | Description |
| id | Id | str | 1 | | 0 | script id |
| handle | Self | self | 1 | | | handle to self |
| disabled | Disabled | bool | 1 | | 0 | disable execution and piping |
| i | Mesh | vtkUnstructuredGrid | 1 | | | the input mesh |
| ifile | MeshInputFileName | str | 1 | | | filename for the default Mesh reader |
| warpvectorsarray | WarpVectorsArrayName | str | 1 | | Normals | name of the array where warp vectors are stored |
| thicknessarray | ThicknessArrayName | str | 1 | | | name of the array where scalars defining boundary layer thickness are stored |
| entityidsarray | CellEntityIdsArrayName | str | 1 | | CellEntityIds | |
| thickness | Thickness | float | 1 | | 1.0 | value of constant boundary layer thickness |
| thicknessratio | ThicknessRatio | float | 1 | (0.0,) | 0.1 | multiplying factor for boundary layer thickness |
| maximumthickness | MaximumThickness | float | 1 | | 10000000000.0 | maximum allowed value for boundary layer thickness |
| sublayers | NumberOfSubLayers | int | 1 | (0,) | 1 | number of sublayers which the boundary layer has to be made of |
| substeps | NumberOfSubsteps | int | 1 | (0,) | 2000 | number of substeps for smoothly propagating the boundary layer |
| relaxation | Relaxation | float | 1 | (0.0,) | 0.01 | relaxation factor for the evolution of the inner surface |
| localcorrection | LocalCorrectionFactor | float | 1 | (0.0,) | 0.45 | amount of correction to apply to warp vectors during local untangling |
| innersurfaceentityid | InnerSurfaceCellEntityId | int | 1 | (0,) | 0 | cell entity id assigned to the inner warped surface |
| outersurfaceentityid | OuterSurfaceCellEntityId | int | 1 | (0,) | 0 | cell entity id assigned to the original outer surface |
| sidewallentityid | SidewallCellEntityId | int | 1 | (0,) | 0 | cell entity id assigned to the sidewall elements generated by sweeping |
| volumeentityid | VolumeCellEntityId | int | 1 | (0,) | 0 | cell entity id assigned to volume elements of the boundary layer |
| sublayerratio | SubLayerRatio | float | 1 | (0.0,) | 1.0 | ratio between the thickness of two successive boundary layers |
| warpvectormagnitudeasthickness | UseWarpVectorMagnitudeAsThickness | bool | 1 | | 0 | compute boundary layer thickness as the norm of warp vectors |
| constantthickness | ConstantThickness | bool | 1 | | 0 | toggle constant boundary layer thickness |
| includesurfacecells | IncludeSurfaceCells | bool | 1 | | 1 | include inner and outer surface cells in the output mesh |
| includesidewallcells | IncludeSidewallCells | bool | 1 | | 1 | include surface cells generated by sweeping the input surface boundaries in the output mesh |
| negatewarpvectors | NegateWarpVectors | bool | 1 | | 0 | flip the orientation of warp vectors |
| ofile | MeshOutputFileName | str | 1 | | | filename for the default Mesh writer |
| oinnerfile | InnerSurfaceMeshOutputFileName | str | 1 | | | filename for the default InnerSurfaceMesh writer |
Output arguments
| Argument | Variable | Type | Length | Range | Default | Description |
| id | Id | str | 1 | | 0 | script id |
| handle | Self | self | 1 | | | handle to self |
| o | Mesh | vtkUnstructuredGrid | 1 | | | the output mesh |
| oinner | InnerSurfaceMesh | vtkUnstructuredGrid | 1 | | | the output inner surface mesh |
