Mesh Generation:
*ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH is to generate a S-ALE mesh and invoke S-ALE solver. It is going to be used together with *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_CONTROL_POINTS; which sets up the mesh spacing in 3 directions.
Initial Volume Filling:
*ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_VOLUME_FILLING is to fill the initial S-ALE domain with different multi-materials (AMMGs).
Mesh Trimming:
*ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_TRIM is to trim the initial S-ALE mesh. Elements far away from the domain of interest are trimmed and excluded from the calculation.
Mesh Motion:
*ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_MOTION is to make the S-ALE mesh to follow the motion of certain multi-material(s) during the simulation.
NODESET, SEGSET and SOLIDSET:
Check for options SALEFAC (S-ALE by face) and SALECPT (S-ALE by CONTROL_POINTS) *SET_?_GENERAL. Using these two options are the ONLY way to generate node/segment/solid set. Please note as mesh is not generated until runtime it is not possible to pick nodes/segments/solids in pre-processors.
Mesh Refinement:
*ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_REFINE is to refine the initial S-ALE mesh. Node/segment/solid sets defined using SALECPT in *SET_?_GENERAL cards will be adjusted accordingly.
Ambient Elements:
*BOUNDARY_AMBIENT is to set up ambient initial and boundary condition in a collection of elements (solid set). Please note "ambient parts" is only in traditional ALE and ILLEGAL in S-ALE.
Hydrostatic Elements:
*INITIAL_HYDROSTATIC_ALE is to set up initial pressure in a collection of elements (solid set). *ALE_AMBIENT_HYDROSTATIC is to apply pressure boundary condition in a collection of elements (solid set). Please note, "ambient parts" is only in traditional ALE and ILLEGAL in S-ALE.
