[Carpet] buffer zones

Ian Hawke I.Hawke at soton.ac.uk
Fri May 19 17:29:58 CEST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:24 +0200, Frank Loeffler wrote:

> > then you nullify the effect of the mesh
> > refinement (as interpolating from the coarse grid loses you the
> > additional accuracy that the fine grid should give you).
> 
> Ok, that is the loss of performance I was talking about. I am more 
> concerned of lower convergence than expected.

I don't immediately see how it would impact on convergence (certainly
not global convergence). Maybe a couple of points would not converge in
the expected way?


> I have 6 instead of the needed 4. I think this does not count as _really_?

Unless your grid is only about 15 points across, no.

Ian







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