Residual error based adaptive mesh refinement with the non-intrusive patch algorithm

This paper deals with the introduction of mesh refinement techniques within the non-intrusive patch process. For this, an ad hoc residual based explicit error estimator is built, which is adapted to a multi-scale solution, associated with those non-intrusive mesh refinement technique. Moreover, to reduce the global cost of the process, one introduces an estimate of the convergence error of the non-intrusive algorithm, which allows to reduce the number of iterations. This method is discussed and illustrated in various numerical examples. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.