[aspect-devel] Temperature mesh refinement criteria

[FELIPE ORELLANA ROVIROSA]

 Makes sense !

 I bel
thanks Wolfgang,

Felipe

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at tamu.edu> wrote:

> On 07/07/2017 01:58 PM, FELIPE ORELLANA ROVIROSA wrote:
>
>>
>>     In that spirit, the variable u could be Temperature, or velocity
>> components (or the strainrate), etc. Then I guess the results or
>> effectiveness of this T-based mesh refinement would depend on what element
>> order is in use, cause their sensitivity to the second derivative is
>> different.
>>
>
> Potentially. At least in theory, it would make sense to use third
> derivatives for quadratic elements (as we use for velocity and temperature)
> but in practice, the general observation in the computational science
> community is that using second derivatives leads to pretty good meshes.
>
>
> Best
>  W.
>
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