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Gravitational instabilities naturally give rise to multi-scale structure, which is difficult for traditional Eulerian hydrodynamic methods to accurately evolve. This can be circumvented by adaptively adding resolution (in the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Bryan , M. L. Norman

This work introduces a novel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) method that utilizes dominant balance analysis (DBA) for efficient and accurate grid adaptation in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The proposed method leverages a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-06 Gaurav Kumar , Aditya G. Nair

We describe a powerful methodology for numerical solution of 3-D self-gravitational hydrodynamics problems with extremely high resolution. Our method utilizes the technique of local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), employing multiple grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher , Christopher F. McKee , J. Kelly Truelove

High-order solvers for compressible flows are vital in scientific applications. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is a key technique for reducing computational cost by concentrating resolution in regions of interest. In this work, we develop…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anjiang Wei , Hang Song , Mert Hidayetoglu , Elliott Slaughter , Sanjiva K. Lele , Alex Aiken

We examine the conditions under which binary and multiple stars may form out of turbulent molecular cloud cores using high resolution 3-D, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamics (Truelove et al., 1997, 1998; Klein, 1999). We argue…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I Klein , R. T. Fisher , C. F. McKee

I survey the use and impact of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations in numerical astrophysics and cosmology. Two basic techniques are in use to extend the dynamic range of Eulerian grid simulations in multi-dimensions: cell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Norman

In the last decade, progresses in additive manufacturing (AM) have paved the way for optimized heat exchangers, whose disruptive design will depend on predictive numerical simulations. Typical AM rough surfaces show limited resemblance to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Himani Garg , Lei Wang , Guillaume Sahut , Christer Fureby

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the high-order spectral-element method code Nek5000 is demonstrated and validated with well-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) of the flow past a wing profile. In the present work, the flow around a NACA…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-30 F. Mallor , Á. Tanarro , N. Offermans , A. Peplinski , R. Vinuesa , P. Schlatter

We systematically validate the static local mesh refinement capabilities of a recently proposed IMEX-DG scheme implemented in the framework of the deal.II library. Non-conforming meshes are employed in atmospheric flow simulations to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Orlando , Tommaso Benacchio , Luca Bonaventura

Colliding supersonic bulk flows shape observable properties and internal physics of various astrophysical objects, like O-star winds, molecular clouds, galactic sheets, binaries, or gamma-ray bursts. Using numerical simulations, we show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Doris Folini , Rolf Walder , Jean M. Favre

When numerically solving partial differential equations, for a given problem and operating condition, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) has proven its efficiency to automatically build a discretization achieving a prescribed accuracy at low…

Cartesian-grid methods with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) are ideally suited for simulating the breaking of waves, the formation of spray, and the entrainment of air around ships. As a result of the cartesian-grid formulation, minimal…

The development of novel materials in recent years has been accelerated greatly by the use of computational modelling techniques aimed at elucidating the complex physics controlling microstructure formation in materials, the properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Damien Pinto , Michael Greenwood , Nikolas Provatas

This paper examines the application of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the field of numerical weather prediction (NWP). We implement and assess two distinct AMR approaches and evaluate their performance through standard NWP benchmarks. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Daniel S. Abdi , Ann Almgren , Francis X. Giraldo , Isidora Jankov

Simple homogeneous shear flows of frictionless, deformable particles are studied by particle simulations at large shear rates and for differently soft, deformable particles. The particle stiffness sets a time-scale that can be used to scale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-25 Dalila Vescovi , Stefan Luding

Intermittent fluctuations in the boundary of magnetically confined plasmas are investigated by numerical turbulence simulations of a reduced fluid model describing the evolution of the plasma density and electric drift vorticity in the…

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations are still the main method to study complex flows in engineering. However, traditional turbulence models cannot accurately predict flow fields with separations. In such situation, machine learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang , Zhenhua Xia

FEARLESS (Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large Eddy SimulationS) is a new numerical scheme arising from the combined use of subgrid scale (SGS) model for turbulence at the unresolved length scales and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Iapichino , A. Maier , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer

Two-dimensional crystalline membranes have recently been realized experimentally in such systems as graphene and molybdenum disulfide, sparking a resurgence in interest in their statistical properties. Thermal fluctuations can significantly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-19 Emily Russell , Rastko Sknepnek , Mark J. Bowick

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) offers a practical solution to reduce the computational cost and memory requirement of numerical simulations that use computational meshes. In this work, we introduce a novel smart methodology for adaptive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-23 Akash A. Patel , Masoud Safdari