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The cost and accuracy of simulating complex physical systems using the Finite Element Method (FEM) scales with the resolution of the underlying mesh. Adaptive meshes improve computational efficiency by refining resolution in critical…

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

Multiphase flows are an important class of fluid flow and their study facilitates the development of diverse applications in industrial, natural, and biomedical systems. We consider a model that uses a continuum description of both phases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-04 Bindi M. Nagda , Aaron Barrett , Boyce E. Griffith , Aaron L. Fogelson , Jian Du

We propose a novel approach to extracting crack-free iso-surfaces from Structured AMR data that is more general than previous techniques, is trivially simple to implement, requires no information other than the list of AMR cells, and works,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ingo Wald

This work presents a high-order finite-difference adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework for robust simulation of shock-turbulence interaction problems. A staggered-grid arrangement, in which solution points are stored at cell centers…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Yuqi Wang , Yadong Zeng , Ralf Deiterding , Jinhui Yang , Jianhan Liang

We present the first high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in multiple space dimensions. High order spatial accuracy is obtained through a WENO reconstruction, while a high order one-step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Michael Dumbser , Olindo Zanotti , Arturo Hidalgo , Dinshaw S. Balsara

In this paper we describe in detail the computational algorithm used by our parallel multigrid elliptic equation solver with adaptive mesh refinement. Our code uses truncation error estimates to adaptively refine the grid as part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. David Brown , Lisa L. Lowe

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods are state-of-the-art algebraic solvers for partial differential equations. Still, their efficiency depends heavily on the choice of suitable parameters and/or ingredients. Paradigmatic examples include the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Caldana , Lorenzo Gentile , Marco Verani

We examine the effect of accuracy of high-order spectral element methods, with or without adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), in the context of a classical configuration of magnetic reconnection in two space dimensions, the so-called…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Rosenberg , A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni

An implicit method for the ohmic dissipation is proposed. The proposed method is based on the Crank-Nicolson method and exhibits second-order accuracy in time and space. The proposed method has been implemented in the SFUMATO adaptive mesh…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tomoaki Matsumoto

This work introduces an adaptive mesh refinement technique for hierarchical hybrid grids with the goal to reach scalability and maintain excellent performance on massively parallel computer systems. On the block structured hierarchical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Benjamin Mann , Ulrich Rüde

The problem of developing an adaptive isogeometric method (AIGM) for solving elliptic second-order partial differential equations with truncated hierarchical B-splines of arbitrary degree and different order of continuity is addressed. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Annalisa Buffa , Carlotta Giannelli

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is necessary for efficient finite element simulations of complex physical phenomenon, as it allocates limited computational budget based on the need for higher or lower resolution, which varies over space and…

Block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) provides the basis for the temporal and spatial discretization strategy for a number of ECP applications in the areas of accelerator design, additive manufacturing, astrophysics, combustion,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew Myers , Kevin Gott , Ann Almgren , John Bell

In this paper we present a full-fledged scheme for the second order accurate, divergence-free evolution of vector fields on an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hierarchy. We focus here on adaptive mesh MHD. The scheme is based on making a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dinshaw Balsara

We revisit the generation of balanced octrees for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of Cartesian domains with immersed complex geometries. In a recent short note [Hasbestan and Senocak, J. Comput. Phys. vol. 351:473-477 (2017)], we showed that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jaber J. Hasbestan , Inanc Senocak

The forest-of-refinement-trees approach allows for dynamic adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) at negligible cost. While originally developed for quadrilateral and hexahedral elements, previous work established the theory and algorithms for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 David Knapp , Johannes Albrecht Holke , Thomas Spenke , Carsten Burstedde , Lukas Dreyer

Adaptive meshing is a fundamental component of adaptive finite element methods. This includes refining and coarsening meshes locally. In this work, we are concerned with the red-green-blue refinement strategy in two dimensions and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Stefan A. Funken , Anja Schmidt

This work is focused on the extension and assessment of the monotonicity-preserving scheme in [3] and the local bounds preserving scheme in [5] to hierarchical octree adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). Whereas the former can readily be used on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jesus Bonilla , Santiago Badia

The advent of robust, reliable and accurate higher order Godunov schemes for many of the systems of equations of interest in computational astrophysics has made it important to understand how to solve them in multi-scale fashion. This is so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dinshaw Balsara