Extract the longest edge of a mesh generated by pdetool

When I generate a mesh with pdetoolbox, like the one in the image. How can I extract the norm (longest edge value) of the mesh? I have been looking for a while, but couldn't find anything helpful.

Answer 1

[Alan Weiss]

You can extract the information yourself from the Mesh Data.

First, export your mesh (I assume that it is a linear mesh) from Mesh > Export Mesh. You get p, e, and t matrices in your workspace.

Then find the lengths of all the triangles in your mesh.

edge1 = p(:,t(1,:)) - p(:,t(2,:)); % point 1 to point 2
edge2 = p(:,t(1,:)) - p(:,t(3,:)); % point 1 to point 3
edge3 = p(:,t(2,:)) - p(:,t(3,:)); % point 2 to point 3
L1 = hypot(edge1(1,:),edge1(2,:)); % Find the lengths
L2 = hypot(edge2(1,:),edge2(2,:));
L3 = hypot(edge3(1,:),edge3(2,:));

Then find the longest of the lengths.

[long1,idx1] = max(L1)
[long2,idx2] = max(L2)
[long3,idx3] = max(L3)

There may be more efficient ways to code this, but I just tried the code I gave and believe that it works.

Alan Weiss

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