From: Katherine Cosburn Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 20:31:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Clear up confusion about what kind of refinement is to be explored X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0-rc1~1269^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd874f5dd6853b05dccadc8d62bcc4088e6c32d2;p=dealii.git Clear up confusion about what kind of refinement is to be explored --- diff --git a/examples/step-2/doc/results.dox b/examples/step-2/doc/results.dox index 99d18e512b..5b6336acb4 100644 --- a/examples/step-2/doc/results.dox +++ b/examples/step-2/doc/results.dox @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ familiarize yourself with deal.II. For example, in the sparsity pattern changes if you use higher order elements, for example cubic or quintic ones (by using 3 and 5 as the respective arguments). -Or, you could see how the sparsity pattern changes with more -refinements. You will see that not only the size of the matrix +You could also explore how the sparsity pattern changes by refining +the mesh. You will see that not only the size of the matrix changes, but also its bandwidth (the distance from the diagonal of those nonzero elements of the matrix that are farthest away from the diagonal), though the ratio of bandwidth to size typically shrinks,