[Paraview] sweeping a mesh

[Felipe Bordeu]

hello,

I am trying to do a very particular thing.

A have a mesh (unstructured), with a displacement field (dep) that  
depens on some parameters (time, temperature...), and I will like to  
visualise the total volume sweep by the mesh.

Until now my approach is to calculate the field for a given parameter,  
then warp the mesh with the displacement field, extract the surface  
and append the surface mesh to the final mesh.

the problem is that the final mesh is very very big. I will like to  
know of a way to clean internal elements, so I can keep only the  
envelope mesh.

any ideas....

Felipe


Felipe Bordeu Weldt
Ingénieur de Recherche
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