The adaptive refinement applied to simulation with finite elements has become a useful tool for the otimization of numerical modeling.
The main difficulty in this process is to fix the optimal region where the refinement should be applied based on an acceptable error. If the scientist has some feedback from the computation he is involved with, this will make his work a lot easier.
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