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2 34 S HAPE E FFECTS (a) (b) Figure 2.3: KBIs of finite subvolumes G V / σ 3 vs. the inverse of the size of the subvolume, σ / L using the numerically computed w ( r ). The RDF of Eq. (2.6) has parameters σ = 1 and χ = 2. The subvolumes used have the following shapes: (a) spheroids and (b) cuboids with different aspect ratios, a . In (a) we also compare the KB integral for a sphere ( a = 1) using both the numerical w ( x ), and the analytic w ( x ) from Table 1.1.