Sir, I am working on Finite Element Analysis for an aerospace company in USA.
The Company Spoke wants to get ma computed values sometimes validated by hand calculation. And sometimes the actual stress value may be zero. but the numerical analysis value varies by less than 1. And I was wondering how to make it in percentage. !
I try to follow. If you get experimental results which allow a statistical analysis (gauss or poisson distributions) you use the established methods of error calculation. If you have only a small number of results it´s without any sense to calculate average values or medians etc. So if you spent a little bit more information (possibly with an example) I could find a tip.
I think the key is the value of references that you can use, for example I try to simulate a sum of forces acting on an object. In my study the summation of forces must be zero, but in the simulations obtain values of 0.01 [Nw]. The forces applied to the body are in the order of 200 [Nw]. As I consider both my relative error is on the order of 100% (0.01 [Nw] / 200 [Nw]) = 0.005%.