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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Biol Med. 2017 Oct 24;91:353–365. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.10.028

Table 3.

Comparison aspect ratio and volume change for PRM and UNST meshes.

#Elements
Aspect ratio
Volume change
Subjects PRM UNST PRM
(mean, min, max)
UNST
(mean, min max)
PRM
(mean, min, max)
UNST
(mean, min, max)
I 1783K 29940K 0.36, 0.18, 0.99 0.76, 0.21, 0.99 1.31, 0.66, 10.39 1.29, 0.51, 09.38
II 2158K 22455K 0.48, 0.12, 0.97 0.63, 0.02, 1.00 1.31, 0.72, 26.68 1.50, 0.25, 26.28
III 1876K 26342K 0.37, 0.16, 0.96 0.66, 0.12, 1.00 1.34, 0.72, 20.25 1.52, 0.36, 07.53
IV 2115K 32536K 0.38, 0.12, 1.00 0.69, 0.15, 0.98 1.30, 0.86, 22.50 1.49, 0.49, 12.56
V 1918K 22547K 0.42, 0.09, 0.98 0.59, 0.03, 1.00 1.28, 0.76, 18.23 1.37, 0.39, 10.11
V1 1897K 27986K 0.37, 0.11, 0.99 0.60, 0.08, 0.98 1.33, 0.69, 16.33 1.22, 0.33, 18.30

Mean 1958K 26967K 0.39, 0.13, 0.98 0.65, 0.10, 0.99 1.31, 0.73, 19.06 1.39, 0.38, 14.03

PRM: Parametric hexahedral mesh, UNST: Unstructured tetrahedral mesh.