Research Article

An Adaptive Finite Element Method for Stationary Incompressible Thermal Flow Based on Projection Error Estimation

Table 7

A successive sequence of adapted meshes based on a residual error estimation for .

err Eff CPU

238 0.651433 6.32201 6.31274 8.95784 74.4933 8.316 1.609
286 0.167818 0.608207 0.594685 0.867023 8.75867 10.102 1.672
669 0.0785628 0.279946 0.274727 0.400021 4.11085 10.2766 3.89
1212 0.0425637 0.238712 0.237269 0.339252 3.31492 9.77129 7.156
2309 0.041893 0.14484 0.138815 0.204947 2.12799 10.3831 13.672
2962 0.0186839 0.0952816 0.0945824 0.135549 1.34394 9.91483 17.984
5533 0.0194194 0.0628666 0.0620324 0.0904286 0.891394 9.85743 33.891
7468 0.00787077 0.045213 0.0443621 0.0638291 0.618652 9.69232 46.922
12045 0.00932973 0.0325655 0.0319025 0.0465331 0.450524 9.68181 77.109
15180 0.00419643 0.022182 0.0221098 0.0315989 0.306211 9.69056 99.094