“…Since most practical problems do not have enough regularity, the practical importance was not recognized until the work of Hemker [21,20] and Hemker and Koren [23,22]. One current view of the defect correction method is that it allows for a solution that is nearly nonsingular for ill-conditioned problems through stabilization and correction; for a sample of recent works, see, e.g., Altase and Burrage [1], Axelsson and Nikolova [4], Juncu [28], Graziadei, Mattheij, and Boonkkamp [16], Heinrichs [19,18], Desideri and Hemker [6], Nefedov and Mattheij [34], Shaw and Crumpton [37]. For example, when applied to viscoelastic fluid flow (Lee [32]), the defect correction method proved to be the key algorithmic idea for computing with a Weissenberg number beyond which other algorithms failed.…”