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Small fixes. Comment on dual solutions.
authorRalf Hartmann <Ralf.Hartmann@dlr.de>
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:56:29 +0000 (10:56 +0000)
committerRalf Hartmann <Ralf.Hartmann@dlr.de>
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:56:29 +0000 (10:56 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@5265 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

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   <ul>
   <li> Time-dependent acoustic and elastic wave equation, including
        nonlocal absorbing boundary conditions;
-  <li> Stokes flow discretized with the discontinous Galerkin finite
+  <li> Stokes flow discretized with the discontinuous Galerkin finite
        element method;
   <li> General hyperbolic problems including Euler flow, using the
-       discontinous Galerkin finite element method;
+       discontinuous Galerkin finite element method;
   <li> Distributed parameter estimation problems.
   </ul>
+  To illustrate the complexity of the programs mentioned above we note
+  that most of them include adaptive mesh refinement tailored to the
+  efficient computation of specific quantities of physical interest
+  and error estimation measured in terms of these quantities. This
+  includes the solution of a so-called dual problems, that means
+  e.g. for the wave equation the solution of a wave equation solved
+  backward in time.
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