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rvig560@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (Stefano Miccoli) writes:

>>>Can anyone tell me what the impact of element aspect ratios is
>>>in Finite Element Analysis. 

>I suspect that very large aspect ratios could lead to ill-conditioned
>stiffness matrices.

I don't think that's the sole problem.  We use high aspect ratio elements
for CFD analysis often, for cases in which the velociy gradient in the long
direction is small (and we don't feel like changing our non-dimensionalization
scheme :-)
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Dave!