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We describe the implementation of kinetic solvers in 1d2v phase space using adaptive Cartesian mesh. Spherical coordinates in velocity space are used to simplify the Lorentz and Fokker-Planck collisional operators. The key capabilities of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vladimir Kolobov , Robert Arslanbekov , Dmitry Levko

We describe the implementation of 1d1v and 1d2v Vlasov and Fokker-Planck kinetic solvers with adaptive mesh refinement in phase space (AMPS) and coupling these kinetic solvers to Poisson equation solver for electric field. We demonstrate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Vladimir Kolobov , Robert Arslanbekov , Dmitry Levko

We present the AMPS algorithm, a finite element solution method that combines principal submatrix updates and Schur complement techniques, well-suited for interactive simulations of deformation and cutting of finite element meshes. Our…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yu-Hong Yeung , Alex Pothen , Jessica Crouch

This paper presents novel refinement sensors for the application to adaptive mesh and algorithm refinement (AMAR) with kinetic models, such as discrete velocity and lattice Boltzmann methods. While refinement criteria for AMAR based on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 R. M. Strässle , S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

The rarefied flow and multi-scale flow are crucial for the aerodynamic design of spacecraft, ultra-low orbital vehicles and plumes. By introducing a discrete velocity space, the Boltzmann method, such as the discrete velocity method and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-07 Jianfeng Chen , Sha Liu , Rui Zhang , Chengwen Zhong , Yanguang Yang , Congshan Zhuo

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) enables efficient computation of flows by providing high resolution in critical regions while allowing for coarsening in areas where fine detail is unnecessary. While early AMR software packages relied solely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer Essel , Pierre Sullivan

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

In this paper, a novel adaptive finite element method is proposed to solve the Kohn-Sham equation based on the moving mesh (nonnested mesh) adaptive technique and the augmented subspace method. Different from the classical self-consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Guanghui Hu , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu , Gang Zhao

This paper presents a parallel and fully conservative adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of a finite-volume-based kinetic solver for compressible flows. Time-dependent H-type refinement is combined with a two-population…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ruben M. Strässle , S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

Lattice-Boltzmann methods are known for their simplicity, efficiency and ease of parallelization, usually relying on uniform Cartesian meshes with a strong bond between spatial and temporal discretization. This fact complicates the crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Thomas Bellotti , Loïc Gouarin , Benjamin Graille , Marc Massot

We show feasibility and benefits of porting an adaptive multi-scale kinetic-fluid code to CPU-GPU systems. Challenges are due to the irregular data access for adaptive Cartesian mesh, vast difference of computational cost between kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Sergey Zabelok , Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

Adaptive representations are increasingly indispensable for reducing the in-memory and on-disk footprints of large-scale data. Usual solutions are designed broadly along two themes: reducing data precision, e.g., through compression, or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Harsh Bhatia , Duong Hoang , Nate Morrical , Valerio Pascucci , Peer-Timo Bremer , Peter Lindstrom

A novel hybrid computational method based on the discrete-velocity (DV) approximation, including the lattice-Boltzmann (LB) technique, is proposed. Numerical schemes for the kinetic equations are used in regions of rarefied flows, and LB…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 V. V. Aristov , O. V. Ilyin , O. A. Rogozin

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) is one of the most important equations in quantum mechanics, and appears in a wide range of applications including optical fibre communications, plasma physics and biomolecule dynamics. It is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-05 J. A. Mackenzie , W. R. Mekwi

We describe an application of Berger and Colella's structured adaptive mesh refinement algorithm to the field of cosmological astrophysics. Simulations in this area must include not just a gaseous component which follows the hyperbolic…

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

The use of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques is crucial for accurate and efficient simulation of higher dimensional spacetimes. In this work we develop an adaptive algorithm tailored to the integration of finite difference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Frans Pretorius , Luis Lehner

Parallel implementation of numerical adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)strategies for solving 3D elastostatic contact mechanics problems is an essential step toward complex simulations that exceed current performance levels. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Alexandre Epalle , Isabelle Ramière , Guillaume Latu , Frédéric Lebon

Computing accurate rate constants for catalytic events occurring at the surface of a given material represents a challenging task with multiple potential applications in chemistry. To address this question, we propose an approach based on a…

This work introduces a novel, fully robust and highly-scalable, $h$-adaptive aggregated unfitted finite element method for large-scale interface elliptic problems. The new method is based on a recent distributed-memory implementation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Neiva , Santiago Badia

A finite element-based image segmentation strategy enhanced by an anisotropic mesh adaptation procedure is presented. The methodology relies on a split Bregman algorithm for the minimisation of a region-based energy functional and on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Matteo Giacomini , Simona Perotto
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