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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: SIAM J Numer Anal. 2012 Jan 19;50(1):22–45. doi: 10.1137/100785958

Table 4.3. Example 2 results for the two partial derivatives of the solution (upper) and the adjoint solution (lower) at T = 3.9.

Δ t true ∂1q est. ∂1q Error IIIab IIb Estimate Error

Estimate
est. ∂1q+Est.

true ∂1q

0.3 −7.89E + 00 −4.42E + 00 −3.47E + 00 −4.06E + 00 −1.49E + 00 −5.55E + 00 1.60 1.26
0.15 −7.89E + 00 −9.32E + 00 1.43E + 00 5.88E – 01 8.18E – 01 1.41E + 00 0.986 1.00
0.075 −7.89E + 00 −8.11E + 00 2.12E – 01 8.05E – 02 1.01E – 01 1.82E – 01 0.858 1.00

Δ t true ∂2q est. ∂2q Error IIIab IIb Estimate Error

Estimate
est. ∂2q+Est.

true ∂2q

0.3 −1.94E – 01 2.26E – 01 −4.20E – 01 9.44E – 01 1.09E + 00 2.03E + 00 −4.83 −11.7
0.15 −1.93E – 01 5.62E – 02 −2.50E – 01 −1.91E – 01 −5.68E – 02 −2.48E – 01 0.992 0.990
0.075 −1.93E – 01 −1.78E – 01 −1.55E – 02 −4.55E – 03 −1.44E – 02 −1.90E – 02 1.22 1.02
Δ t φ(0) Φ(0) Error II Error

Estimate
Φ(0)+ Est.

φ(0)

0.3 2.02E + 00 2.49E + 00 −4.64E – 01 1.19E + 00 −2.57 1.82
0.15 2.02E + 00 2.35E + 00 −3.31E – 01 −3.54E – 01 1.07 0.988
0.075 2.02E + 00 2.07E + 00 −5.03E – 02 −4.93E – 02 0.981 1.00