Adaptive strategy for transient/coupled problems applications to thermoelasticity and elastodynamics Original Research Article

The interest in adaptive strategies for the finite element method is growing at a fast pace. Researchers are now fully convinced that this should be part of any numerical modelling and try to incorporate the methodology to their problems. Even the industry begins to require such an approach to increase the quality of the numerical results and to get more effective analyses to increase the ratio between computer costs and target error level. The adaptive strategy has first been applied to linear elliptic problems, e.g. linear infinitesimal elasticity [1,6,17,11]). It is now enlarged to nonlinear and transient problems [12–16,5,10,17]. It is the aim of this paper to illustrate the application of the technique of residuals to adaptive refineme