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Hi

You seem to have a thin layer device there, perhaps a MEMS device, or just something "thin" compared to its horizontal extend.
These are objects known hard to mesh.

To get a better control and observation of the selections and probably splitting's you need to perform, I suggest to you to add a new View (right click the "Definitions" node and just select the View), and for this one select the "automatic" scaling a couple of sub-nodes below the new View node in the model tree.

Then for learning how to mesh such structures, check the how to videos of the main COMSOL site i.e. the series including mesh tutorials, and do not forget the BLOG posts on their webseite
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Good luck
Ivar

Hello Mack,

Very thin (and very elongated) structures like this one lend themselves very well to swept meshing. See Reference Manual for COMSOL Multiphysics, version 5.3, Chapter 8, and in particular the swept mesh tutorial that starts on page 593. This blog is also right on topic: www.comsol.com/blogs/improving-your-meshing-with-swept-meshes/ .

In case some parts of a structure lends itself to swept meshing while some others don't, you can partition the geometry before meshing and use different meshing strategies in the different chunks thus created. See e.g. www.comsol.com/blogs/improving-your-meshing-with-partitioning/ .
Best,
Jeff

Yes, that`s a MEMS structure. Domain 2 has thickness of 0.2 microns....

Will go through your suggested technique and tutorial...

Many thanks

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Mack