Hello. I am having a problem in the Salome 9.9.0 When I try to use Projection 2D to make the meshes of the opposite surfaces the same so that I can later apply periodic or cyclic boundary conditions, I get the following error that says the corresponding surfaces do not have the same shape, even though they are completely the same.
unexpected geometry : topology of source and target faces seems different*
and this is picture of two faces:
Does anyone have any ideas for solving this problem?
Can you display the vertexes of each face ? I think you might have extra vertexes in one over the other face. I have faced that issue already.
If it is not that, how are you getting the 1d discretization of your faces?
Thank you for your response.
Yes, you are absolutely right. It seems that one of the faces has extra vertices.
Do you know why this happened?
I also used wire discretisation for the 1D mesh.
if you have different vertices, you will not be able to use projection. they need to be exactly the same, vertex by vertex edge by edge etc.
it seems as you create the faces from intersection with cylinders or cylindrical faces (next time you post for asking for help try to give more detail of the issue 
). the seam of the cylinders might have been in different positions (seam= straight edge of the cylinder) which generates the extra vertex. if that is the case, as you have only a partial intersection try rotating them till the seams do not intersect the face this will generate a face with less vertexes and that (if you are right that are equal) that is geometrically equal.
Thank you for your answer. You guessed the problem correctly to some extent, but the problem is, as you can see from the figure below, it is not possible to remove the seam of the cylinders by rotation. Therefore, what I did was to try to change the seams of the cylinders so that they fall on the vertices of the cube or if it gives an extra vertex, it also gives that vertex symmetrically on the opposite surface.
Can you diagnose the problem?
lol… periodic open cell strucutres… it remembers me of my thesis… ah lala… it is normal you geometries are still different. you can see it in the image that you post it.
Thank you very much for your helpful advice. I followed your instructions exactly, and I no longer have the problem of unequal vertices in the opposite surfaces and Projection works well for any two opposite surfaces.
Do you understand my new problem? Do you have any ideas for this?
Your issue is the 1d discretization if I remember correctly use the 1d2d projection instead of 2d projecyion
Unfortunately, this also did not make any changes and it still gives the same error.
Do you have any other proposals?
Test define all edges to one 1d submesh. Eg wire discretization with 10 elements. And then the 2d projecyion alone. If that does not work I am not sure another way around. Sorry
Ok I succesfully mesh the geometry with the 3 projections. the main issue is in the projection/2D surface mesh, you should do it face by face which is quite annoying but clearly doable. here you can find the 3D tet mesh with xmin equal to xmax, ymin equal to ymax and zmin equal to zmax. up to my knowledge of salome, I don’t know if it is possible to get exactly the same surface mesh for all the cube faces might be possible with the hypothesis import 1D-2D elements… but I don’t have knowledge of how exactly woks. but if that is the case the logic would be to mesh the 1D edges of one side, surface mesh separately for each face inside that side, and then import for the corresponding faces. you could even create only 1 of the small faces and import it to all other faces even the small ones in the same side. have a look in the hdf file I am uploading. up to here is where I can go with my knowledge but for an AMI simulation should be already perfect (outside of the tetra nature of the mesh.)
best regards,
BCCUCFGnew.hdf (3,4 MB)
EDIT: correction you can use project 2D with all similar faces, which creates a perfect homogeneous mesh. (way cleanner)
BCCUCFGnew.hdf (1,3 MB)
