Different Boundary Conditions for Standard Abaqus

NEWS.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ for human readability.
 #### Added
 - AMR for hyperbolic-parabolic equations on 3D `P4estMesh`
 - `flux_hllc` on non-cartesian meshes for `CompressibleEulerEquations{2,3}D`
+- Different boundary conditions for quad/hex meshes in Abaqus format, even if not generated by HOHQMesh, 
+  can now be digested by Trixi in 2D and 3D.
 
 ## Changes when updating to v0.6 from v0.5.x
 

docs/make.jl

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ files = [
     "Adaptive mesh refinement" => "adaptive_mesh_refinement.jl",
     "Structured mesh with curvilinear mapping" => "structured_mesh_mapping.jl",
     "Unstructured meshes with HOHQMesh.jl" => "hohqmesh_tutorial.jl",
+    "P4est mesh from gmsh" => "p4est_from_gmsh.jl",
     # Topic: other stuff
     "Explicit time stepping" => "time_stepping.jl",
     "Differentiable programming" => "differentiable_programming.jl",

docs/src/meshes/p4est_mesh.md

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ This heading is used to indicate to the mesh constructor which of the above mapp
 create a curvilinear mesh.
 If the Abaqus file header is **not** present then the `P4estMesh` is created with the first strategy above.
 
-#### List of corner nodes
+#### <a name="nodes"></a>List of corner nodes
 
 Next, prefaced with `*NODE`, comes a list of the physical `(x,y,z)` coordinates of all the corners.
 The first integer in the list of the corners provides its id number.
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Thus, for the two-dimensional example mesh this block of corner information is
 7, 3.0, -1.0, 0.0
 ```
 
-#### List of elements
+#### <a name="elements"></a>List of elements
 
 The element connectivity is given after the list of corners. The header for this information block is
 ```
@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ The construction of the element neighbor ids and identifying physical boundary s
 directly from the [`p4est`](https://github.com/cburstedde/p4est) library.
 For example, the neighbor connectivity is created in the mesh constructor using the wrapper `read_inp_p4est` function.
 
-#### HOHQMesh boundary information
+#### Encoding of boundaries
+
+##### HOHQMesh boundary information
 
 If present, any additional information in the mesh file that was created by `HOHQMesh` is prefaced with
 `** ` to make it an Abaqus comment.
@@ -230,8 +232,37 @@ For completeness, we provide the entire Abaqus mesh file for the example mesh in
 **  Bottom --- Right ---
 ```
 
+##### Standard Abaqus format boundary information
+
+As an alternative to an Abaqus mesh generated by `HOHQMesh`, `.inp` files with boundary information encoded as nodesets `*NSET,NSET=` can be used to construct a `p4est` mesh.
+This is especially useful for usage of existing meshes (consisting of bilinear elements) which could stem from the popular [`gmsh`](https://gmsh.info/) meshing software.
+
+In addition to the list of [nodes](#nodes) and [elements](#elements) given above, there are nodesets of the form 
+```
+*NSET,NSET=PhysicalLine1
+1, 4, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 
+```
+required which are used to associate the edges defined through their corner nodes with a label, in this case `PhysicalLine1`.
+By looping over every element and its associated edges consisting of two nodes, we query the read in `NSET`s if the current node pair is present.
+
+To prevent that every nodeset following `*NSET,NSET=` is treated as a boundary, the user has to supply the `boundary_symbols` keyword to the [`P4estMesh`](@ref) constructor:
+
+```julia
+boundary_symbols = [:PhysicalLine1]
+
+mesh = P4estMesh{2}(mesh_file, polydeg = polydeg, boundary_symbols = boundary_symbols)
+```
+By doing so, only nodesets with label in `boundary_symbols` are treated as boundaries and other nodesets which could be used for diagnostics are not treated as boundary.
+Note that there is a leading double-colon `:` compared to the label in the `.inp` mesh file.
+This is required to turn the label into a [`Symbol`](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/#Symbols).
+
+A 2D example for this mesh generation is presented in 
+`examples/p4est_2d_dgsem/elixir_euler_NACA6412airfoil_mach2.jl`.
+
 ### Mesh in three spatial dimensions
 
+#### `HOHQMesh`-Extended Abaqus format
+
 The 3D Abaqus file format with high-order boundary information from `HOHQMesh` is very similar to the
 2D version discussed above. There are only three changes:
 
@@ -346,4 +377,222 @@ transfinite map of the straight sided hexahedral element to find
 \mathbf{X}(\boldsymbol{\xi}) = \boldsymbol\Sigma(\boldsymbol{\xi})
                              - \mathcal{C}_{\texttt{edge}}(\boldsymbol{\xi})
                              + \mathbf{X}_{linear}(\boldsymbol{\xi}).
+```
+
+#### Construction from standard Abaqus
+
+Also for a mesh in standard Abaqus format there are no qualitative changes when going from 2D to 3D.
+The most notable difference is that boundaries are formed in 3D by faces defined by four nodes while in 2D boundaries are edges consisting of two elements.
+A simple mesh file used also in `examples/p4est_3d_dgsem/elixir_euler_free_stream_boundaries.jl` is given below:
+```
+*Heading
+ Something DIFFERENT FROM ** ***** HOHQMesh boundary information ***** **
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+******* E L E M E N T S *************
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 ```