vmtkmeshaddexternallayer
Description
create an external prismatic layer from the wall of a mesh and the normals on the wall.
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 |
| entityidsarray | CellEntityIdsArrayName | str | 1 | | CellEntityIds | |
| surfacecellentityid | SurfaceCellEntityId | int | 1 | | 1 | id of the first surface cells in the entityids list |
| inletoutletcellentityid | InletOutletCellEntityId | int | 1 | | 2 | |
| extrudecellentityid | ExtrudeCellEntityId | int | 1 | | 1 | id of the surface cells to extrude |
| thicknessarray | ThicknessArrayName | str | 1 | | | name of the array where scalars defining boundary layer thickness are stored |
| 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 |
| numberofsublayers | NumberOfSubLayers | int | 1 | (0,) | 1 | number of sublayers which the boundary layer has to be made of |
| sublayerratio | SubLayerRatio | float | 1 | (0.0,) | 1.0 | ratio between the thickness of two successive boundary layers |
| constantthickness | ConstantThickness | bool | 1 | | 1 | toggle constant boundary layer thickness |
| includesurfacecells | IncludeSurfaceCells | | | | | include all surface cells in output mesh |
| includeextrudedopenprofilescells | IncludeExtrudedOpenProfilesCells | bool | 1 | | 1 | include the cells from the open profiles extruded surface in output mesh |
| includeextrudedsurfacecells | IncludeExtrudedSurfaceCells | bool | 1 | | 1 | include the cells from the extruded surface in output mesh |
| includeoriginalsurfacecells | IncludeOriginalSurfaceCells | bool | 1 | | 0 | include the cells from the original surfacein output mesh |
| ofile | MeshOutputFileName | str | 1 | | | filename for the default Mesh 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 |
