On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Nils Becker
<nils.bec...@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>> Could you possible post your code so I can play around with it? I
>> can't think offhand what could be the issue or exactly what the error
>> is that you're calculating, it seems like the normalized residual or
>> something.
>
> hi daniel, thanks for your reply. the way i was calculating the residual
> is to export the solution on a grid, import that into mathematica,
> interpolate in space and time and have mathematica calculate
> ||lhs-rhs|| / ||lhs|| where ||...|| is the L2 norm. what i saw was that
> the relative error was low in the beginning but increased over time,
> especially in places where the solution starts to grow exponentially.

I'm not sure if using ||lhs|| is a good way to normalize the residual.
Surely that could be very small. Is ||lhs - rhs|| getting smaller
without normalization?

-- 
Daniel Wheeler
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