[aspect-devel] Temperature mesh refinement criteria

[FELIPE ORELLANA ROVIROSA]

sorry, accidentally I sent an unfinished message.

 Makes sense !

 I believe in the struggles and conclusions of the whole community.

thanks Wolfgang, thanks a lot.

Felipe

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:03 PM, FELIPE ORELLANA ROVIROSA <
f_orellana at berkeley.edu> wrote:

>
>  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.
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Wolfgang Bangerth          email:                 bangerth at colostate.edu
>>                            www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/
>>
>>
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