In this routine the quality of each element is determined. To this end the ratio of the largest edge to the radius of the inscribed sphere is used. One can prove that the radius of the inscribed sphere of a linear tetrahedral is three times the volume divided by the sum of the area of its faces [25]. Therefore, the quality for element can be written as:
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The factor is such that the quality of an equilateral tetrahedron is 1. For all other tetrahedra it exceeds 1. The larger the value, the worse the element. The cut-off of was introduced to avoid dividing by zero or getting a negative value.