Discussion: “Factors of Safety for Richardson Extrapolation” (Xing, T., and Stern, F., 2010, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 132, p. 061403)

Abstract

A recent paper by Xing and Stern [1] provides additional performance data of interest on Verification of Calculations, but is misleading in some important respects. Five methods, all starting from Richardson Extrapolation, are compared: three are based on variants of my Grid Convergence Index method [2-6], and two are based on the authors’ work: the earlier “CF method” and the latest “FS method.”