Research Article

Identification of Viscoelastic Constitutive Parameters of a Cell Based on Fluid-Structure Coupled Finite Element Model and Experiment

Table 3

Convergence analysis of fluid-structure interaction model of cell shear flow with 5 different mesh sizes.

0.1μm0.2μm0.4μm0.8μm1.6μm
Calculated ValueCalculated ValueErrorCalculated ValueErrorCalculated ValueErrorCalculated ValueError

Shear Stress (Pa)2.382.3-3.36%2.2-4.35%2.03-7.73%1.77-12.81%
Maximal Pressure (Pa)3.563.580.56%3.590.28%3.73.06%3.864.32%

Note: refers to the relative error between the calculated value under the mesh density and that under the adjacent fine meshes; and all the physical quantities are from the highest point of the cell.