Table 2.

Comparison of mesh quality indices in the percentage of elements violating threshold criteria.

Mesh	Jacobian (<0.9)	Aspect ratio (>2.0)	Maximum angle (>80°)	Minimum angle (<50°)
Initial	21.1%	0.2%	49.9%	83.7%
Laplacian smoothing
Five iterations	4.2%	0.2%	28.3%	66.9%
Ten iterations	4.1%	0.2%	27.7%	66.0%
15 iterations	3.4%	0.2%	24.7%	63.7%
20 iterations	3.9%	0.2%	27.6%	66.2%
Proposed model	3.0%	0.0%	21.3%	59.3%