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Add another point.
authorbangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 02:59:50 +0000 (02:59 +0000)
committerbangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 02:59:50 +0000 (02:59 +0000)
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deal.II/examples/step-32/doc/results.dox

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@@ -387,4 +387,14 @@ address to make the program more useful:
   want to change the number of processors between runs, for example because
   one may wish to continue computing on a mesh that is finer than the one used
   to pre-compute a starting temperature field at an intermediate time.
+
+<li> <b>Predicted postprocessing:</b> The point of computations like this is
+  not simply to solve the equations. Rather, it is typically the exploration
+  of different physical models and their comparison with things that we can
+  measure at the earth surface, in order to find which models are realistic
+  and which are contradicted by reality. To this end, we need to compute
+  quantities from our solution vectors that are related to what we can
+  observe. Among these are, for example, heatfluxes at the surface of the
+  earth, as well as seismic velocities throughout the mantle as these affect
+  earthquake waves that are recorded by seismographs.
 </ul>

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