A SIMPLE ERROR ESTIMATOR AND ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE FOR PRACTICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS英文文献.pdfVIP

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, VOL. 24, 337-357 (1987) A SIMPLE ERROR ESTIMATOR AND ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE FOR PRACTICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS 0.C . ZIENKIEWICZ AND J.Z . ZHU Department of C i d Engineering, L‘niuersity of Swunseu, Swunsea, SA2 8PP U.K. SUMMARY A new error estimator is presented which is not only reasonably accurate but whose evaluation is computationally so simple that it can be readily implemented in existing finite element codes. The estimator allows the global energy norm error to be well estimated and also gives a good evaluation of local errors. It can thus be combined with a full adaptive process of refinement or, more simply, provide guidance for mesh redesign which allows the user to obtain a desired accuracy with one or two trials. When combined with an automatic mesh generator a very efficientguidance process to analysis is available. Estimates other than the energy norm have successfullybeen applied giving, for instance, a predetermined accuracy of stresses. INTRODUCTION The subject of error estimates for finite element solutions and a consequent adaptive analysis, in which the approximation is successively refined to reach predetermined standards of accuracy, is central to the effective use of finite element codes for practical, engineering, analysis. Much of the pioneering mathematical work1-’ is being today ‘translated’to engineering usage. A recent survey of such work shows the principal directions of this effort.” However, many difficultiesremain and these are responsible for the fact that to this date almost no commercially available codes include provisions for error estimating or adaptivity. The two main problems are (1) the cost of com