Errors truncation

The steady temperature distribution is shown in Fig. 4.19. For the interested reader, the FORTRAN program EX4—6.F fisted in the Appendix solves the problem. 

The inductive approach generally followed in this chapter, which is based on the five steps of formulation, directly leads to the discrete formulation of a given problem. However, it does not provide information on the accuracy of this formulation. In this section we deal with the error involved with discrete formulations, which is usually called the truncation error. 

Consider two Taylor series expansions of T x) near x,-, yielding at x, + Ax and Xi - Ax, respectively, 

From Eq. (4.41) we obtain for node i at x,- the first-order forward difference, 

Other linear combinations of Taylor series expansions yield other difference operators. The foregoing results are of the form 

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Truncation errors. These errors arise from the substitution of a... 

The truncation error in the first two expressions is proportional to Ax, and the methods are said to be first-order. The truncation error in the third expression is proportional to Ax, and the method is said to be second-order. Usually the last equation is used to insure the best accuracy. The finite difference representation of the second derivative is ... 

The truncation error is proportional to Art". To solve a differential equation, it is evaluated at a point i and then these expressions are inserted for the derivatives. 

The truncation error of this approach is Aa." (Ref. 106). The second approach uses the average of the transport coefficients on either side. 

This approach is used when the transport coefficients vary over several orders of magnitude, and the upstream direction is defined as the one in which the transport coefficient is larger. The truncation error of this approach is only Aa. (Refs. 106 and 107), but this approach is useful if the numerical solutions show unrealistic oscillations. 

The Verlet algorithm has the numerical disadvantage that the new positions are obtained by adding a term proportional to Af to a difference in positions (2r — r, i). Since At is a small number and (2r, — r, i) is a difference between two large numbers, this may lead to truncation errors due to finite precision. The Verlet furthermore has the disadvantage that velocities do not appear explicitly, which is a problem in connection with generating ensembles with constant temperature, as discussed below. 

As it is apparent from Eqs. (8) and (9), the decay of the errors with the truncation radii in the series (1) and (2) depends only marginally on the energy provided the conditions (7) are verified and it is determined essentially by the incomplete gamma Amctions. Thus, we can impose both the truncation errors to be as close as possible, simply by equating the arguments of both gamma functions. Thus, putting in Eqs. (8) and (9)... 

Truncation error estimates can be made to determine if the step size should be reduced or increased. For example, for the Hamming method,... 

The Gear Algorithm [15], based on the Adams formulas, adjusts both the order and mesh size to produce the desired local truncation error. BuUrsch and Sloer method [16, 22] is capable of producing accurate solutions using step sizes that arc much smaller than conventional methods. Packaged Fortran subroutines for both methods are available. 

Apart from their pedagogical value, reversible rules may be used to explore possible relationships between discrete dynamical systems and the dynamics of real mechanical systems, for which the microscopic laws are known to be time-reversal invariant. What sets such systems apart from continuous idealizations is their exact reversibility, discreteness assures us that computer simulations run for arbitrarily long times will never suffer from roundoff or truncation errors. As Toffoli points out, ...the results that one obtains have thus the force of theorems [toff84a]. ... 

Since the machine performs only arithmetic operations (and these only approximately), iff is anything but a rational function it must be approximated by a rational function, e.g., by a finite number of terms in a Taylor expansion. If this rational approximation is denoted by fat this gives rise to an error fix ) — fa(x ), generally called the truncation error. Finally, since even the arithmetic operations are carried out only approximately in the machine, not even fjx ) can usually be found exactly, and still a third type of error results, fa(x ) — / ( ) called generated error, where / ( ) is the number actually produced by the machine. Thus, the total error is the sum of these... 

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The generality of a simple power series ansatz and an open-ended formulation of the dispersion formulas facilitate an alternative approach to the calculation of dispersion curves for hyperpolarizabilities complementary to the point-wise calculation of the frequency-dependent property. In particular, if dispersion curves are needed over a wide range of frequencies and for several optical proccesses, the calculation of the dispersion coefficients can provide a cost-efficient alternative to repeated calculations for different optical proccesses and different frequencies. The open-ended formulation allows to investigate the convergence of the dispersion expansion and to reduce the truncation error to what is considered tolerable. 

Statistical and algebraic methods, too, can be classed as either rugged or not they are rugged when algorithms are chosen that on repetition of the experiment do not get derailed by the random analytical error inherent in every measurement,i° 433 is, when similar coefficients are found for the mathematical model, and equivalent conclusions are drawn. Obviously, the choice of the fitted model plays a pivotal role. If a model is to be fitted by means of an iterative algorithm, the initial guess for the coefficients should not be too critical. In a simple calculation a combination of numbers and truncation errors might lead to a division by zero and crash the computer. If the data evaluation scheme is such that errors of this type could occur, the validation plan must make provisions to test this aspect. 

VOLUME.dat Section 1.1.2 A set of five precision weighings of a water-filled 100 ml flask the weights in grams were converted to milliliters using the standard density-vs.-temperature tables. Use with MSD to test the effect of truncation errors on the calculation of the standard deviation. (See Table 1.1.)... 

The QUICK scheme has a truncation error of order h. However, similarly as in the case of the central differencing scheme, at high flow velocities some of the coupling coefficients of Eq. (37) become negative. 

Truncation errors. These errors arise from the substitution of a finite number of steps for an infinite sequence of steps which would yield the exact result. To illustrate this error consider the infinite series for e e =l — x + x /2 — x /6 + ET(x), where ET is the truncation error, ET= (l/24)e exi, 0 < e [Pg.43]

There are two common ways to evaluate the transport coefficient at the midpoint Use the average value of the solution on each side to evaluate the diffusivity, or use the average value of the diffusivity on each side. Both methods have truncation error Ax2 (Finlayson, 2003). The spacing of the grid points need not be uniform see Finlayson (2003) and Finlayson et al. (2006) for the formulas in that case. 

In principle, the relationships described by equations 66-9 (a-c) could be used directly to construct a function that relates test results to sample concentrations. In practice, there are some important considerations that must be taken into account. The major consideration is the possibility of correlation between the various powers of X. We find, for example, that the correlation coefficient of the integers from 1 to 10 with their squares is 0.974 - a rather high value. Arden describes this mathematically and shows how the determinant of the matrix formed by equations 66-9 (a-c) becomes smaller and smaller as the number of terms included in equation 66-4 increases, due to correlation between the various powers of X. Arden is concerned with computational issues, and his concern is that the determinant will become so small that operations such as matrix inversion will be come impossible to perform because of truncation error in the computer used. Our concerns are not so severe as we shall see, we are not likely to run into such drastic problems. 

In dealing with the SGS terms, Revstedt et al. (1998, 2000) and Revstedt and Fuchs (2002) did not use any model rather, they assumed these terms were just as small as the truncation errors in the numerical computations. This heuristic approach lacks physics and does not deserve copying. A most welcome aspect of LES is that the SGS stresses may be conceived as being isotropic, i.e., insensitive to effects of the larger scales, to the way the turbulence is induced and to the complex and varying boundary conditions of the flow domain. Exactly this... 

Comparing this equation to a finite difference approximation (Eqn. 20.29), we see that in the numerical solution we carry only the first term in the series, the d Q /3x term, omitting the higher order entries. The Taylor series is truncated, then, and the resulting error called truncation error. 

Truncation error arises from approximating each of the various space and time derivatives in the transport equation. The error resulting from the derivative in the advection term is especially notable and has its own name. It is known as numerical dispersion because it manifests itself in the calculation results in the same way as hydrodynamic dispersion. 

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