volume

R2026b

Compute volume of 3-D mesh elements

Syntax

V = volume(mesh)

[V,VE] = volume(mesh)

V = volume(mesh,elements)

Description

V = volume(mesh) returns the volume V of the entire mesh.

[V,VE] = volume(mesh) also returns a row vector VE containing volumes of each individual element of the mesh.

V = volume(mesh,elements) returns the combined volume of the specified elements of the mesh.

Examples

Volume of 3-D Mesh

Generate a 3-D mesh and find its volume.

Create a PDE model.

model = createpde;

Import and plot the geometry.

importGeometry(model,"BracketWithHole.stl");
pdegplot(model)

Generate a mesh and plot it.

mesh = generateMesh(model);
figure
pdemesh(model)

Compute the volume of the entire mesh.

mv = volume(mesh)

mv = 
8.0244e-04

Volume of Individual Elements of 3-D Mesh

Generate a 3-D mesh and find the volume of each element.

Create a PDE model.

model = createpde;

Import and plot the geometry.

importGeometry(model,"BracketWithHole.stl");
pdegplot(model)

Generate a mesh and plot it.

mesh = generateMesh(model);
figure
pdemesh(model)

Compute the volume of the entire mesh and the volume of each individual element of the mesh. Display the volumes of the first 5 elements.

[va,vi] = volume(mesh);
vi(1:5)

ans = 1×5
10-6 ×

    0.3801    0.4653    0.1624    0.4345    0.1729

Total Volume of Group of Elements

Find the combined volume of a group of elements of a 3-D mesh.

Create a PDE model.

model = createpde;

Import and plot the geometry.

importGeometry(model,"BracketWithHole.stl");
pdegplot(model)

Generate a mesh and plot it.

mesh = generateMesh(model);
figure
pdemesh(model)

Evaluate the shape quality of the mesh elements and find the elements with the quality values less than 0.5.

Q = meshQuality(mesh);
elemIDs = find(Q < 0.5);

Compute the total volume of these elements.

mv05 = volume(mesh,elemIDs)

mv05 = 
1.4865e-07

Find how much of the total mesh volume belongs to these elements. Return the result as a percentage.

mv05_percent = mv05/volume(mesh)*100

mv05_percent = 
0.0185

Input Arguments

mesh — Mesh description

FEMesh object

Mesh description, specified as an FEMesh object.

elements — Element IDs

positive integer | matrix of positive integers

Element IDs, specified as a positive integer or a matrix of positive integers.

Example: [10 68 81 97 113 130 136 164]

Output Arguments

V — Volume

positive number

Volume of the entire mesh or the combined volume of the specified elements of the mesh, returned as a positive number.

VE — Volume of individual elements

row vector of positive numbers

Volume of individual elements, returned as a row vector of positive numbers.

Version History

Introduced in R2018a