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3.1GeometricalMeshQuality
Wellshapedelementsareespeciallyimportantforfiniteelementmethods.Certaingeometricalqualitymeasuresandratioscanbedefinedtoevaluatetheshape
ofanelement.Suchpurelygeometricalcriterialeadbynaturetoanisotropicmeshdensitydistribution.Theyareimplementedwithouttheknowledgeofthe
physicalproblemathand.VarioustypesofnotsowellshapedelementsaredepictedinFig.3.1.
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Figure3.1:Varioustypesofnotsowellshapedelementsandsomeparameters.
(3.1)
(3.2)
(3.3)
(3.4)
(3.5)
Tobemorepreciseonehastonotethatnotallofthesedefinitionsprovideawellbehavedqualitymeasureinalldimensions.Forexampleonly satisfy
(3.6)
whilethemeasure canbekeptconstant.Onecangraduallytransformawellshapedelementintoasliverelementbymovingonevertexwithoutchanging
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(3.7)
Figure3.2:Therelationbetweentheedgelength
anditsoppositeangleinatrianglefollowsfrom
and
therefore .
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Figure3.3:Withconstantedgelengthand
circumsphereradiustheoppositedihedralanglein
atetrahedroncanhavearbitraryvalues.
thetriangle.Lackingthisrelationshipinthreedimensionsmanyqualitycriteriafailtoguaranteeboundeddihedralangles. hasmorethenatureofaone
dimensionalmeasure.Itfailsevenintwodimensionstoavoidbadlyshapedtriangles.Withafixed atrianglemayhaveanyobtuseangle.Itwilldependon
theapplicationwhetherornotanglesareimportantandwhichcriteriaprovetobeuseful.
Animportantconclusioncanbedrawn.Whatevermeansarepursuedtoimprovetheelementquality,theemployedtechniquemustfittotheappliedmeasure.
Otherwiseterminationisnotensured.Ifthenumberofneedlesandcapsshouldbereducedbymeansofrefinementbutthenumberofsliversbylocal
transformations,theformermustbedistinguishedfromthelatter.Therefinementshouldthenbecontrolledbye.g. whichwillnotdetecttheslivers.And
thelocaltransformationscouldbeappliedinafollowingstepforelementswhichdonotcomplywithe.g. .
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