Fig. 6
Temperature distributions at 60 s (a) for the full model (black and white solid lines are those of the lesion boundaries computed by the full and reduced model, in this case multiplying by three the thermal convective coefficients. The dashed line is that computed by the reduced model using the previous thermal convective coefficients) and the comparison of progress of maximum blood temperatures (b) between the reduced (red lines) and full (blue line) models for low blood flow rate using an electrode insertion depth (DE) of 1.0 mm. The rationale for increasing the value of thermal convective coefficients at both interfaces was to try to match the lesion surface width of the reduced model with that of the full model