Face

class dolfin.cpp.mesh.Face

Bases: dolfin.cpp.mesh.MeshEntity

A Face is a MeshEntity of topological dimension 2.

Constructor.

Parameters:
  • Mesh & mesh (const) –
  • index (std::size_t) –
area()

Calculate the area of the face (triangle)

Return type:double
normal()

Compute component i of the normal to the face.

Parameters:i (std::size_t) –
Return type:double
thisown

The membership flag