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Skewness, which is the default quality measure in Mesh Statistics and Mesh Plots, is a measure of the equiangular skew is defined as the minimum of the following quantity:
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Curved skewness, which is defined as the elementwise product of skewness and reldetjacmin, which is a measure of the deformation when generating the higher-order element (see Table 5-10 in the Global and Local Definitions chapter). When curved skewness is evaluated in Mesh Statistics, the deformation always uses the second-order Lagrange geometry shape function. If you want to evaluate curved skewness for some other geometry shape function, you can do so by evaluating the built-in variable qualcurvedskewness on a mesh dataset with the desired setting or a solution dataset. If you plot the mesh from the solution dataset, you will measure the same deformation as in your solution. If you use a mesh dataset, you need to set the desired geometry shape function explicitly in the settings for the dataset. The default geometry shape function for the mesh dataset is linear, which makes skewness and curved skewness equivalent. You can use a plot of the curved skewness to find badly shaped mesh elements.
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The qualcurvedskewness measure is equivalent to qualskewness for face elements not adjacent to domain elements in 3D.
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Custom expression (available in the Settings window of Mesh Plots), where your can enter a custom expression for the mesh quality (using the variables listed below, for example). The expression must evaluate to scalar values from 0 to 1.
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h, the local mesh size.
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qualskewness, the skewness mesh quality measure, which is the default mesh quality measure.
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qualmaxangle, the maximum angle mesh quality measure.
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qual, the volume versus circumradius quality measure.
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qualvollength, the volume versus length mesh quality measure.
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qualcondition, the condition number mesh quality measure.
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qualgrowth, the growth rate mesh quality measure.
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qualcurvedskewness, the quality measure of the deformation when generating higher-order elements.
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In general, if a mesh with a low mesh quality has been generated, an Information node appears. See the sections Displaying Mesh Element Quality and the Mesh Element Size and Information, Warning, and Error Nodes for Meshing Operations for more information on how to locate the elements of low quality.
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