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A. Mesh (§2.7)

A. Mesh (§2.7)

Mesh tag mesh2. Built from explicit Free Triangular + Size nodes, i.e. user-controlled; the report never prints the sequence-type label. Sizes are in nm.

A.1 Statistics

Quantity Value
Triangles 120 917
Edge elements 1 879
Vertex elements 196
Minimum element quality 0.6378
Average element quality 0.9765
Quality measure NOT IN REPORT (§5.4 plots are labelled skewness)
Degrees of freedom NOT IN REPORT

Element type is triangular throughout — no quads, no mapped mesh.

A.2 Size nodes

Off in the report means the override checkbox is cleared, so the value is inherited from the global Size node and the printed number is inactive. Active values in bold.

Node Level / selection Max size Min size Curvature Narrow regions Growth rate Predefined
size Size (global) whole model 10 0.001 0.25 NOT IN REPORT 1.05 Finer, Custom
size1 Size (reservoir boundary) Boundaries 195–196 5 0.025 (Off) 0.25 (Off) Off 1.25 (Off) Finer, Custom
size5 Size (pore boundary) Boundaries 7–29, 31–152, 154–194 (sel. Nanopore) 0.05 0.001 0.25 NOT IN REPORT 1.05 Finer, Custom
size6 Size (symmetry axis inside pore) Boundaries 3–4 0.075 0.04 (Off) 0.25 (Off) Off Off Finer, Custom
size3 Size (reservoir domain) Domain 1 (Reservoir) 2.8 (Off) 0.04 (Off) 0.25 (Off) Off 1.04 Finer, Custom
size2 Size (pore domain) Domain 2 (Nanopore) 0.1 0.004 (Off) 0.2 (Off) Off Off Extremely fine, Custom

size3 and size6 set Calibrate for = Fluid dynamics; the others do not print a calibration.

A.3 Mesh operations

Node Type Selection
ftri1 Free Triangular (not pore) Free Triangular Domains 1, 3 (reservoir + membrane); children size1, size5, size6, size3
ftri2 Free Triangular (pore) Free Triangular Remaining (Domain 2); child size2

No Boundary Layers node exists. No Distribution, Mapped, Corner Refinement, Adapt or Refine node exists. The wall is resolved purely by the 0.05 nm boundary size with growth rate 1.05. Boundary-layer parameters (number of layers, stretching factor, first-layer thickness) are therefore not applicable, not merely absent. [verified]1



  1. COMSOL model report (5.4). ↩