Ferrite-FEM/Ferrite.jl

Add relative tolerance for point finder

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#1,180 opened on Apr 1, 2025

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Description

Currently the point finder does not take into account relative tolerances and the only convergence criterion is the absolute distance, which can yield weird convergence errors. We should add a relative tolerance to the convergence which takes into account the physical element size.

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Locate the point finder convergence logic and add a relative tolerance term based on element size.
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julia
Domain
backend
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Julia
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70