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Viewing Convergence Graphs for the h-Method

To plot convergence:

In the Simulation study tree, right-click the Results folder and select Define Adaptive Convergence Graph.
In the PropertyManager, check all options and click .

Verify the results.

	Analytic	h-Method	Without h-Method
Maximum in psi	3024	3068 (~1.5%)	1898 (37% error)

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