Introduction

The tool AddLayer adds one layer of elements with a specified thickness thickness on either on top or bottom of an existing mesh input-mesh and returns the newly generated mesh output-mesh that has an new layer.

One might want to take care that the material groups are reduced, e.g. material groups should not be [0,2,5], but [0,1,2]. The new layer will have the material group number of the highest material group +1. With the switch --copy-material-ids the MaterialIDs of the extruded layer will be kept.

The tool requires the OGS-6 node ordering in the elements. A different node ordering may lead to unexpected results. In case one might try to change the ordering using the tool NodeReordering.

Usage

AddLayer -i <input-mesh> -o <output-mesh> [-t <thickness>]

Simple example

Usage for example:

AddLayer -i quad.vtu -o quad_with_new_top_layer.vtu -t 1

Application

The tool was used to add a “soil” layer to the hydro-geological model of the Unstrut catchment within the INFLUINS project: