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The forest-of-octrees approach to parallel adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening (AMR) has recently been demonstrated in the context of a number of large-scale PDE-based applications. Although linear octrees, which store only leaf…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Tobin Isaac , Carsten Burstedde , Lucas C. Wilcox , Omar Ghattas

We describe a parallel, adaptive, multi-block algorithm for explicit integration of time dependent partial differential equations on two-dimensional Cartesian grids. The grid layout we consider consists of a nested hierarchy of fixed size,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Donna Calhoun , Carsten Burstedde

Current Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger, AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jonathan J. Carroll-Nellenback , Brandon Shroyer , Adam Frank , Chen Ding

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is widely used to efficiently resolve localized features in time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) by selectively refining and coarsening the mesh. However, in long-horizon simulations, repeated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Kumar Saurabh , Makrand A. Khanwale , Masado Ishii , Hari Sundar , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Miller and Reif's FOCS'85 classic and fundamental tree contraction algorithm is a broadly applicable technique for the parallel solution of a large number of tree problems. Additionally it is also used as an algorithmic design technique for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel , Hamed Saleh , Hsin-Hao Su

Current AMR simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger, AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient parallelization and memory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-10 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Brandon Shroyer , Adam Frank , Chen Ding

We introduce several parallel algorithms operating on a distributed forest of adaptive quadtrees/octrees. They are targeted at large-scale applications relying on data layouts that are more complex than required for standard finite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Carsten Burstedde

We present an efficient MPI-parallel geometric multigrid library for quadtree (2D) or octree (3D) grids with adaptive refinement. Cartesian 2D/3D and cylindrical 2D geometries are supported, with second-order discretizations for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-26 Jannis Teunissen , Rony Keppens

Structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), commonly implemented via quadtrees and octrees, underpins a wide range of applications including databases, computer graphics, physics simulations, and machine learning. However, octrees enforce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Theresa Pollinger , Masado Ishii , Jens Domke

In this article, we present a novel approach for block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) that is suitable for extreme-scale parallelism. All data structures are designed such that the size of the meta data in each distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Florian Schornbaum , Ulrich Rüde

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

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jakub Červený , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev

GPUs and other accelerators are increasingly used for scientific computing. In the future, we want to add GPU support to parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) codes written in Fortran. To understand which changes are necessary to obtain…

Obtainable computational efficiency is evaluated when using an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy in time accurate simulations governed by sets of conservation laws. For a variety of 1D, 2D, and 3D hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Keppens , M. Nool , G. Toth , J. P. Goedbloed

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

In this work we formally derive and prove the correctness of the algorithms and data structures in a parallel, distributed-memory, generic finite element framework that supports h-adaptivity on computational domains represented as…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Eric Neiva , Francesc Verdugo

We present an MPI-parallel algorithm for the in-situ visualization of computational data that is built around a distributed linear forest-of-octrees data structure. Such octrees are frequently used in element-based numerical simulations;…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Carsten Burstedde

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

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

In this thesis, we develop, discuss and implement algorithms for scalable parallel tree-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) using space-filling curves (SFCs). We create an AMR software that works independently of the used element type,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Johannes Holke
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