Mesh adaptation as a tool for certified computational aerodynamics

Mesh convergence order is a key for certification of the accuracy of numerical solutions. A few available results and tools in mesh adaption are synthetized in order to specify a mesh converging method for adaptive calculation of compressible flows including shocks or viscous layers. The main design property for this method is early second‐order convergence, where early means that the second‐order convergence is obtained with coarse meshes. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.