Table 2.

Quadratic convergence of global residual for spiral re-entry problem.

time [ms]	3	75	420	450	570	630	690	825
step 1	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00	1.0000E+00
step 2	9.0110E−03	7.0588E−02	3.7917E−04	1.7091E−03	2.8000E−04	3.2632E−04	2.6667E−04	2.6471E−05
step 3	5.7143E−04	6.4706E−04	1.2083E−10	7.0909E−08	2.1000E−10	4.9474E−10	1.0000E−09	2.5000E−12
step 4	2.1978E−05	1.6471E−07	3.6250E−23	7.0909E−15	2.8000E−18	4.6842E−16	4.0556E−16	1.4118E−20
step 5	1.8681E−05	1.0588E−11	–	–	–	–	–	–
step n	2.5275E−15	2.9412E−19	–	–	–	–	–	–
nsteps	9	6	4	4	4	4	4	4