Fig. 7From: Thermoelastic instability on a frictional surface and its implication for size effect in friction experimentsEvaluation of the new numerical method developed in the present study. “IE” and “MV” indicate the integral equation method and the method using memory variables, respectively. a Relative error at \(s=1\) for \(v=0.1\) (blue), \(1\) (black), and \(10\) (red) for different timestep \(\Delta s\). b Computational time for different number of timesteps \(m\)Back to article page