Progress in adjoint error correction for integral functionals

When approximating the solutions of partial differential equations, it is a few key output integrals which are often of most concern. This paper shows how the accuracy of these values can be improved through a correction term which is an inner product of the residual error in the original p.d.e. and the solution of an appropriately defined adjoint p.d.e. A number of applications are presented and the challenges of smooth reconstruction on unstructured grids and error correction for shocks are discussed.