Compute Cell Quality

Compute the minimum scaled jacoabian of a vtk.Unstructured.Grid, pyvista.UnstructuredGrid, or pyvista.StructuredGrid.

Plot Cell Quality

This built-in example displays the minimum scaled jacobian of each element of a tetrahedral beam:

from pyansys import examples
examples.show_cell_qual()

This is the source code for the example:

import pyansys

# load archive file and parse for subsequent FEM queries
from pyansys import examples
# archive = pyansys.Archive(examples.hexarchivefile)
archive = pyansys.Archive(examples.tetarchivefile)

# create vtk object
grid = archive.parse_vtk(force_linear=True)

# get the cell quality
qual = grid.quality

# plot cell quality
grid.plot(scalars=qual, stitle='Cell Minimum Scaled\nJacobian', rng=[0, 1])

pyansys.quality

ansys.mapdl.reader.quality(grid)

Compute the minimum scaled Jacobian cell quality of an UnstructuredGrid.

Negative values indicate invalid cells while positive values indicate valid cells. Varies between -1 and 1.

Parameters:

grid (pyvista.UnstructuredGrid or pyvista.StructuredGrid) – Structured or Unstructured Grid from pyvista.

Examples

>>> from ansys.mapdl import reader as pymapdl_reader
>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> x = np.arange(-10, 10, 5)
>>> y = np.arange(-10, 10, 5)
>>> z = np.arange(-10, 10, 5)
>>> x, y, z = np.meshgrid(x, y, z)
>>> grid = pv.StructuredGrid(x, y, z)
>>> pymapdl_reader.quality(grid)
array([1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1.,
       1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1.])