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From: Daniel Wheeler <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: Diffusion model on level set
To: wang yunbo <[email protected]>




On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 10:00 PM, wang yunbo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dr. Wheeler,
>
> For a classic diffusion model, I would need to calculate the fourth order
> derivative of the distance variable. Is it right?
>

I think so.


>
> In fipy terms,  phi[:] would be treated as below:
>
>  vel[:] = ((-phi).faceGrad.divergence).faceGrad.divergence
>
>
> Do I really need an accuracy to the 4th order for distance variable phi[:]?


I believe so.

If so, what can be done to improve the order of accuracy in fipy? Thanks.
>

Not much for the distance function. The distance calculation would have to
be fourth order accurate. It would be quite a lot of work to do that.


-- 
Daniel Wheeler



-- 
Daniel Wheeler
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