Table 4.

Table containing the monotonicity bounds $\Delta t_{\text{mono}}^{\ast }$ and stability bounds $\Delta t_{\text{stab}}^{\ast }$ for the relaxation dynamics of pairwise overlapping cells when solved using the forward Euler method in combination with the different force functions

Force function	$\Delta t_{\text{mono}}^{\ast }$	$\Delta t_{\text{stab}}^{\ast }$
Cubic	0.0609	0.1218
Pw. quad.	0.0912	0.1823
GLS	0.1491	0.2982

The values were obtained by evaluating Eq. (16) for $r_0=0.3$ cell diameters and the force parameters according to Table 2 (using ${\alpha }^{(2)}$) and are given in hours