02 Salome

Overview of Salome
Code_Aster, Salome-Meca course material

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Outline of the presentation
What can we do with Salome?
Geometries → The GEOM module
Meshes → The SMESH module
Visualization → The PARAVIS module
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What can we do with Salome? 3
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• Import and export, repair and clean, create and modify
geometries (CAD)
2
• Mesh, quality control, import / export meshes
• Manipulate the physical and numerical properties of a
geometry
2 3 4
• Manage the various stages of a computation: receive
data, setting up a calculation, return results
• Run computation sequences and coupling between
solvers
4
• View and post-process the results

Salome, GEOM module
Design of geometric objects

Import / Export of objects of different
CAD formats
Repair and correction of CAD models
Adaptation of CAD models for
computer simulation
Based on the Open Cascade
technology

Salome, GEOM module: Import & Viewers
Various import / export formats

STEP
IGES (5.1 & 5.3)
BREP
STL (Export)
ACIS (CATIA V5, commercial)
Graphic functionalities
Transparency
Coloring
Shading/Wireframe
Rotation, zoom, pan ...

Salome, GEOM module: GUI
Salome components
Basic primitives
3D primitives
Advanced primitives
Boolean operations
Generations
Transformations
Operations
Constructions
Measures

Salome, GEOM module: Terminology
vertex
edge
wire (set of edges)
face (constructed from a closed

wire)
shell (set of faces)
solid (constructed with a closed

shell)
compound (set of any types)
Open Cascade and Step standard terminology

Salome, GEOM module: conception
Geometric primitives Transformations

1D: line, circle, ellipse, arc, curve, vector translate, rotate, mirror, scale, offset
2D: plan, working plan multi-translation, multi-rotation
3D: parallelepiped, cylinder, sphere, torus, cone
Sketch 2D/3D: construction of complex lines or
surfaces
Information
Construction of elementary objects: « What is it ?", mass centre, inertia, tolerance,
vertex, edge, wire, face, shell, solid, compound bounding box, min. distance, coordinates, angle
Advanced primitives: Tee pipe
Operations
Boolean: merge, join, cut, intersect
Fillet, chamfer, partition
Explode: decomposition into basis objects
Generations
Extrusion, revolution, filling, pipes

Salome, GEOM module: partitions and objects
Define at this step the relevant topological entities to ease
mesh creation, calculation setup, and result post-processing.
Geometric groups
Manage geometric objects from which can be
created element / node groups required when
assigning boundary conditions or material
properties...
Geometric operations to define

partitions in a mesh
Non-manifold geometry
For hexahedral meshing:
Split non-hexahedral shape into hexahedral ones
To define different refinements
To merge
…

Salome, MESH module
The geometric model is imported from GEOM
module
Information and quality control of meshes

Groups of nodes or elements and operations on
these groups
Various import / export formats: MED, UNV, STL,

CGNS
Modifications of meshes
Principles:
One algorithm for each dimension (example in 1D: Wire
discretization)
One hypothesis for each algorithm (example: Nb. Segments)
The mesh calculation starts from the smallest to the

largest dimension:
0D 1D 2D 3D
Salome, SMESH module: algorithms
For each dimension, several Some algorithms are
algorithms are available : multidimensional :
1D 1D-2D
Wire discretization BLSurf
Projection 1D Netgen 1D-2D
...
1D-2D-3D
2D
Netgen 1D-2D-3D
Quadrangle (Mapping)
Netgen 1D-2D
BLSurf
…
3D
Tetrahedrons (NETGEN)
Tetrahedrons(GHS3D)
Hexahedrons (i,j,k)
…

Salome, SMESH module: hypothesis
The parameters of a meshing

algorithm are set through a
hypothesis.
Example for a 1D mesh

Algo 1D :
Wire discretization
Associated hypothesis :
Nb. Segments = 4
Equidistant distribution

Salome, SMESH module: hypothesis
The parameters of a meshing

algorithm are set through a
hypothesis.
Example for a 2D mesh

Algo 1D :
Wire discretization
Associated hypothesis :
Nb. Segments = 4
Equidistant distribution
Algo 2D :
Quadrangle (Mapping)

Salome, PARAVIS module: terminology
The SALOME post-processing module based on ParaView
With functionalities added by EDF
MED interface
Integration points
Modal animation
Filters
In Paravis, the data is managed by means of filters.
Example: Deformed shape, cutting plane …
The filters depend on the type of data. They can be chained.
Initial data Filter 1 Filter 2 ...
Views
A surface on which you can see the data.
Example: 3D, 2D, histogram, plot…
Displays
The data can be seen in different ways in different views
Example: Surface, Wireframe, PointSprite…

Salome, PARAVIS module: a rich and powerful
tool
Visualization of a displacement field

tool
Visualization of a field at Gauss points (integration points)

tool
Creation and animation of cutting plane

tool
Modal analysis: deformed and animation of multiple modes

tool
Data extracts (cuts) and quantitative analyzes

Salome: where to find information?
Online help
The Paraview Tutorial (Version 3.10)

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/The_ParaView_Tutorial
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Overview of Salome

Code_Aster, Salome-Meca course material

What can we do with Salome?

Geometries → The GEOM module

Meshes → The SMESH module

Visualization → The PARAVIS module

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Design of geometric objects

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Various import / export formats

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wire (set of edges)

face (constructed from a closed

solid (constructed with a closed

Open Cascade and Step standard terminology

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Geometric primitives Transformations

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Geometric operations to define

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Information and quality control of meshes

Various import / export formats: MED, UNV, STL,

The mesh calculation starts from the smallest to the

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The parameters of a meshing

Example for a 1D mesh

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The parameters of a meshing

Example for a 2D mesh

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