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81 <h1>Aspect ratio 3D</h1>\r
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83 <p><img src="image86.jpg" width="416px" height="385px" border="0" class="img_whs1"></p>\r
84 \r
85 <p>&nbsp;</p>\r
86 \r
87 <p><img src="i_blue.jpg" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="30px" height="30px" border="0" class="img_whs2">This mesh quality criterion resembles to the Aspect ratio \r
88  criterion, however, it is also applied to 3D mesh elements: tetrahedrons, \r
89  pentahedrons, hexahedrons, etc. &nbsp;</p>\r
90 \r
91 <p>There are 2 simple formulas to evaluate directly the value of quality \r
92  Qk for simplex in 2D and 3D. The formulas are :</p>\r
93 \r
94 <p>\95 For triangle :</p>\r
95 \r
96 <p>&nbsp;</p>\r
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100 <p><img src="image23.gif" width="120px" height="48px" border="0" class="img_whs4"></p>\r
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102 <p>where :</p>\r
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111 \r
112 <p>\95 For tetrahedron :</p>\r
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122 <p>To calculate Sk , it is needed to sum the area of each of the 3 faces \r
123  with the formula given with the triangle.</p>\r
124 \r
125 <p>&nbsp;</p>\r
126 \r
127 <p>For the other types of element like quadrangle, pentahedron and hexahedron \r
128  the formula is the following :</p>\r
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132 <p>Where Qi are the quality of all the possible simplex (of same dimension \r
133  as the element) that compose the element.</p>\r
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