Beauty in Numerical Error

Numerical Errors in Dislocation Stress Fields (2007/08/23)

These ten images show the numerical error in the stress fields around a dislocation that arise as a result of taking a sharp dislocation line and making it "blurry."

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Numerical Errors from Fast Marching Method (2007/11/02)

These three images show the numerical error in the distance function computed using a second-order accurate Fast Marching Method.

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