Support 12 node composite wedges
Please add support for a 12-noded composite wedge localization element.
From Dave Thompson: I think what we need is a diagram of the node numbering and a few hours to modify the ioss reader to support it (assuming the VTK 12-node wedge has mid-edge nodes in the same locations – even if the node numbering is not the same).
From my user: All, 12-noded wedge was added to Exodus by Greg several years ago. It has the same topology as the 15-noded wedge, except edge nodes 13, 14, 15 don't exist. (Greg S., please chime in if I'm wrong.) If it's helpful: we are using this element as a surface element (collapsed to have zero volume) that is sandwiched between adjacent 10-noded tets and used to simulate crack propagation, e.g., with a cohesive zone model or similar. So, the wedge is required to be compatible with the triangular faces of 10-noded tetrahedral elements.
From Dave Thompson: Having looked at the code, I strongly suspect the reader is ignoring the data (there's nothing there to handle WED12 elements).
From my user: Here are a few simple meshes. There should be one with just a single cwedge12 element (patch), one with two ctet10s and a cwedge12 between them (heterogeneous), and one with many elements, two ctet10 blocks with cwedge12 "block" between them. All the cwedge12 elements start out collapsed on themselves (2D surface).