Yep, got it --- thanks.

-- Boyce

On 8/2/10 11:09 AM, Derek Gaston wrote:
> Just in case it isn't completely clear... what you need to do is construct an 
> ExactSolution object using your coarse grid solution and use the 
> "attach_reference_solution()" method to attach your fine grid solution.  Then 
> when you call functions on it like l2_error() it will compare the two 
> solutions in that norm.
>
> Derek
>
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Roy Stogner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Boyce Griffith wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to setup a simple empirical grid convergence study in
>>> libMesh, and was hoping you all could point me in the right direction.
>>> Specifically, if I have a solution on a coarse Cartesian grid, and a
>>> solution on a fine Cartesian grid which is a factor of two finer than
>>> the coarse grid, is there a mechanism in libMesh that would allow me to
>>> restrict the fine grid solution onto the coarse mesh so that I may
>>> compute norms of differences between the coarse and fine solutions?
>>
>> You ought to integrate your norms on the fine grid (otherwise you may
>> get a fraction of your approximation error but only after having
>> thrown away all your interpolation error), and you can do so with the
>> ExactSolution class.
>>
>> That class currently only has functions for returning norms in one
>> variable at a time; if you've got a multiphysics system and want to be
>> able to calculate a SystemNorm based result then we'd be happy to have
>> a patch.  ;-)
>> ---
>> Roy
>>
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