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Re: Mesh size, 3D refinement

 

Confirmed. Can you add a bug report for this and I will try to fix it.

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Anders


On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:54:41AM +0200, Marie Rognes wrote:
>
>
> Something slightly peculiar seems to happen with 3d refinement. Refining
> a 1 x 1 x 1 Unit Cube 3 times gives largest cell diameter that is
> increasing (but smallest cell diameter  that is decreasing as expected).
> It does not seem to (only) be a bug in hmax()/hmin(), odd convergence
> rates are also observed. Any ideas?
>
> Example:
>
> from dolfin import *
>
> mesh = UnitCube(1, 1, 1)
>
> for i in range(3):
>     mesh = refine(mesh)
>
>     print "Refinement level = ", i
>     print "h_max = ", mesh.hmax()
>     print "h_min = ", mesh.hmin()
>
> gives:
>
> Refinement level =  0
> h_max =  1.65831239518
> h_min =  0.866025403784
> Refinement level =  1
> h_max =  1.47901994577
> h_min =  0.433012701892
> Refinement level =  2
> h_max =  1.7809758561
> h_min =  0.216506350946
>

--
Anders



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