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[Jan Stránský <question252296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #252296 on Yade changed:
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    Status: Open => Answered

Jan Stránský proposed the following answer:
Hello Colin,


>
> Hi, I am curious as to what kind of impact  increasing the number of
> elements in a triangulated mesh can have on the simulation speed.
>

as everything, it strongly depends on what you simulate and how. For
example, how many other particles you have, how big they are compared to
the facets etc.


>
> For quick testing I have an imported mesh that contains about 500
> elements. Soon, I want to scale this up to at least 20000 elements so that
> I can have more triangles for post processing.


If you only need it for postprocessing, just refine it in the
postprocessing stage if increasing number of triangles becomes a problem :-)

cheers
Jan

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