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. 2005 Nov 4;4:64. doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-4-64

Table 1.

Comparison of peak wall stress among the three numerical approaches.

β 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
UW FSI 32.3 29.1 28.3 28.0 27.7
UW CSST 29.0 (-10.2) 26.3 (-9.6) 26.0 (-8.1) 25.6 (-8.6) 25.1 (-9.4)
UW CSSS 29.2 (-9.6) 26.3 (-9.6) 25.8 (-8.9) 25.4 (-9.3) 25.1 (-9.4)
VW FSI 152.6 136.2 124.3 115.6 110.0
VW CSST 106.5 (-30.2) 95.7 (-29.7) 88.0 (-29.2) 82.3 (-28.8) 78.2 (-28.9)
VW CSSS 107.5 (-29.6) 95.6 (-29.8) 87.5 (-29.6) 82.0 (-29.1) 77.8 (-29.3)

Peak wall stress (in N/cm2) and comparison between the three numerical techniques. The parentheses show the % difference of the stress obtained with the CSST and CSSS methods with respect to the baseline FSI method.