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In this paper, we introduced a clear object-oriented framework to implement the complicated adaptive procedure with C ++ programming language. In this framework, it consisted of the unstructured mesh generation, a-posterior error estimating, adaptive strategy, and the postprocessing. Unlike the procedure-oriented framework, which is commonly used in DC resistivity modeling with FORTRAN language, the object-oriented one, which is famous for its characteristic of encapsulation, could be used for a class of problems that would be executed by only making some changes on the user interface. To validate its flexibility, two synthetic DC examples were tested here.
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Ren, Z., Tang, J., Wang, F. et al. Object-oriented implementation of 3D DC adaptive finite-element method. Front. Earth Sci. China 4, 229–236 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-009-0065-x
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