Calculate Distance To Skin

Description

Warning: This process does not follow the standard Process interface.

This process takes a volume model part (with tetrahedra mesh) and a skin model part (with triangle mesh) and and calculates the distance to the skin for all the elements and nodes of the volume model part using elemental discontinuous distances..

Parameters & Defaults

{
    "distance_variable"              : "DISTANCE",
    "distance_database"              : "nodal_historical",
    "ray_casting_relative_tolerance" : 1.0e-8
}

distance_variable

Variable to store the Distance. Default DISTANCE

distance_database

database in which the distance will be stored ("nodal_historical", "nodal_non_historical").

ray_casting_relative_tolerance

Relative tolerance for the intersection of the rays using during the raycasting phase.