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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Geometry </div>
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      <div class="title_division">Grid Points</div>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRID </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the location of a geometric grid point, the directions of its displacement, and its permanent single-point constraints. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRIDB </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the location of a geometric grid point on a fluid point (RINGFL entry) for an axisymmetric fluid model and/or axisymmetric structure.  Also defines the boundary of the fluid. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRDSET </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines default options for fields 3, 7, 8, and 9 of all GRID entries. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEQGP </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Used to manually order the grid points and scalar points of the problem.  This entry is used to redefine the sequence of grid and scalar points to optimize bandwidth. </p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Coordinate Systems</div>
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                  <p class="para_td">CORDiC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Cylindrical coordinate system definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">CORDiR </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Rectangular coordinate system definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">CORDiS </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Spherical coordinate system definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">CORD3G </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a general coordinate system using three rotational angles as functions of coordinate values in the reference coordinate system. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">BEAMOR </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines default values for field 3 and fields 6 through 8 of the CBEAM entry. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">BAROR </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines default values for field 3 and fields 6 through 8 of the CBAR entry. </p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Scalar Points</div>
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                  <p class="para_td">SPOINT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines scalar points. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">EPOINT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines extra points for use in dynamic problems. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEQGP </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Grid and scalar point number resequencing. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEQEP </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Redefines the sequence of extra points to optimize bandwidth. </p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Fluid Points</div>
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                  <p class="para_td">ACMODL </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines modeling parameters for the interface between the fluid and the structure. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRID </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines fluid points in coupled fluid-structural analysis. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRIDB </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Grid point location on RINGFL. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">RINGFL </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a circle (fluid point) in an axisymmetric fluid model. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRIDF </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a scalar degree-of-freedom for harmonic analysis of a fluid. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRIDS </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a scalar degree-of-freedom with a two-dimensional location.  Used in defining pressure in slotted acoustic cavities. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">FREEPT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the location of points on the surface of a fluid for recovery of surface displacements in a gravity field. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">PRESPT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the location of pressure points in the fluid for recovery of pressure data. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">FSLIST </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the fluid points (RINGFL entry) that lie on a free surface boundary. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SLBDY </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a list of slot points that lie on an interface between an axisymmetric fluid and a set of evenly spaced radial slots. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">AXIC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the existence of an axisymmetric conical shell problem. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">AXIF </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines basic parameters and the existence of an axisymmetric fluid analysis. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">FLSYM </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the relationship between the axisymmetric fluid and a structural boundary having symmetric constraints. The purpose is to allow fluid boundary matrices to conform to structural symmetry definitions. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">AXSLOT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the harmonic index and the default values for acoustic analysis entries. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">RINGAX </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a ring for conical shell problem. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SECTAX </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a sector of a conical shell. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">POINTAX </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the location of a point on an axisymmetric shell ring at which loads may be applied via the FORCE or MOMENT entries and at which displacements may be requested.  These points are not subject to constraints via MPCAX, SPCAX, or OMITAX entries. </p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Cyclic Symmetry </div>
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                  <p class="para_td">CYAX </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Lists grid points that lie on the axis of symmetry in cyclic symmetry analysis. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">CYJOIN </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the boundary points of a segment in cyclic symmetry problems. </p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Superelement Analysis </div>
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                  <p class="para_td">CSUPEXT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Assigns exterior points to a superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">CSUPER </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the grid or scalar point connections for identical or mirror image superelements or superelements from an external source.  These are all known as secondary superelements. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">EXTRN </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a boundary connection for an external superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GRID </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines interior points for a superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SESET </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines interior grid points for a superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEQSEP </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Used with the CSUPER entry to define the correspondence of the exterior grid points between an identical or mirror-image superelement and its primary superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">RELEASE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines degrees-of-freedom for superelement exterior grid points that are not connected to the superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEELT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Reassigns superelement boundary elements to an upstream superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEBNDRY </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a list of grid points in a partitioned superelement for the automatic boundary search between a specified superelement or between all other superelements in the model. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEBULK </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines superelement boundary search options and a repeated, mirrored, or collector superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SECONCT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Explicitly defines grid and scalar point connection procedures for a partitioned superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEEXCLD </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines grid points that will be excluded during the attachment of a partitioned superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SELABEL </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a label or name to be printed in the superelement output headings. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SELOC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a partitioned superelement relocation by listing three non-colinear points in the superelement and three corresponding points not belonging to the superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SEMPLN </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a mirror plane for mirroring a partitioned superelement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">SETREE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Specifies superelement reduction order. </p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">p-element and Adaptivity Analysis </div>
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                  <p class="para_td">FEEDGE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a finite element edge and associates it with a curve. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">FEFACE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines geometric information that will be used in elements, surface definition, load definition, and boundary condition definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMCORD </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a convective/follower coordinate system on an FEEDGE, GMCURV, FEFACE, or GMSURF entry. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMCURV </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the geometric curve that will be used in element geometry, load definition, and boundary condition definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMSURF </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines geometric information that will be used in elements, surface definition, load definition, and boundary condition definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMBNDC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a geometric boundary consisting of p-element edges along a curve interface.  The boundary may consist of edges of shell, beam, or p-solid elements. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMINTC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines curve interface elements to connect dissimilar meshes. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">PINTC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines properties for curve interface elements (see GMINTC). </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">POINT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the edge point for a FEEDGE entry. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMBNDS </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a geometric boundary consisting of p-element faces along a surface interface.  The boundary may consist of faces of p-solid or p-shell elements. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">GMINTS </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines an interface element along a surface interface between boundaries of multiple subdomains. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">PINTS </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the properties for interface elements along surface interfaces between boundaries of multiple subdomains of p-elements. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">AECOMP </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a component for use in aeroelastic monitor point definition. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">AECOMPL </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines a component for use in aeroelastic monitor point definition as a union of other components. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">MONPNT1 </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines an integrated load monitor point at a point (x,y,z) in a user defined coordinate system. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">UXVEC </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Specification of a vector of aerodynamic control point (extra point) values. </p>
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