[aspect-devel] Question about spherical shell subset

John Naliboff jbnaliboff at ucdavis.edu
Tue Mar 20 08:17:59 PDT 2018


Hi Felipe,

If you would like to specify arbitrary opening angles in 3D, the two 
options are the "chunk" and "ellipsoidal_chunk" geometry models. There 
are a number of examples in the tests folder that show how to specify 
the opening angles.

Cheers,
John

On 03/19/2018 10:55 PM, FELIPE ORELLANA ROVIROSA wrote:
>
>  Dear Aspect fellows,
>
>      I am trying to implement a model in spherical coordinates, but I 
> would like to model only a sector of a spherical shell, say, a solid 
> angle. I can't find references for this.
>
>      I have seen this stuff in 2D, using a variable named Opening angle.
>
>      Can a sector be implemented in 3D?
>
>       it would require 2 plane opening angles..
>
> cheers,
> Felipe
>
>
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