pointInCell.H

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InNamespace
    Foam
 
Description
    Function for determining if a point is within a cell of a polyMesh
 
SourceFiles
    pointInCell.C
 
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#ifndef pointInCell_H
#define pointInCell_H
 
#include "point.H"
 
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namespace Foam
{
 
// Forward declaration of classes
class polyMesh;
 
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//- Enumeration for the sub-shapes used to perform the inside calculation
enum class pointInCellShapes
{
    facePlanes,
    faceCentreTris,
    faceDiagonalTris,
    tets
};
 
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//- Test if a point is in a given cell. For each of the cell's faces, define a
//  plane based on the face centre and the outward pointing face normal. The
//  point is considered to be inside the cell if it is below all such planes.
//  This is not guaranteed to be correct if the cell is not convex. Even if the
//  cell is convex, this approach is still somewhat approximate if the faces
//  are not flat.
bool pointInCellFacePlanes
(
    const point& p,
    const polyMesh& mesh,
    const label celli
);
 
//- Test if a point is in a given cell. For each of the cell's faces,
//  triangulate by connecting each edge to the face centre. Then proceed as for
//  pointInCellFacePlanes, but using these triangles instead of the faces.
//  Triangles are flat by definition, so this approach resolves the ambiguities
//  associated with representing faces as planes. It doesn't fix the convexity
//  requirement, however. If anything it makes it worse, as now the cell has
//  to be convex with respect to the triangles, of which there are more than
//  there are faces.
bool pointInCellFaceCentreTris
(
    const point& p,
    const polyMesh& mesh,
    const label celli
);
 
//- Test if a point is in a given cell. For each of the cell's faces,
//  triangulate by connecting each edge not containing the tetBasePt to the
//  tetBasePt. Then proceed as for pointInCellFacePlanes, but using these
//  triangles instead of the faces. This constructs fewer faces than
//  pointInCellFaceCentreTris, so it should be computationally advantageous
//  over that method. It shares the same limitations otherwise.
bool pointInCellFaceDiagTris
(
    const point& p,
    const polyMesh& mesh,
    const label celli
);
 
//- Test if a point is in a given cell by decomposing the cell into tetrahedra
//  and asking the tetrahedral decomposition engine to determine whether the
//  point is inside one of the tetrahedra. This method has the greatest cost,
//  but is the most general and should be robust to concave non-flat faces and
//  concave cells.
bool pointInCellTets
(
    const point& p,
    const polyMesh& mesh,
    const label celli
);
 
//- Test if a point is in a given cell
bool pointInCell
(
    const point& p,
    const polyMesh& mesh,
    const label celli,
    const pointInCellShapes = pointInCellShapes::tets
);
 
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} // End namespace Foam
 
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#endif
 
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