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Hero-class HPC simulations rely on Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) to reduce compute and memory demands while maintaining accuracy. This work analyzes the performance of Parthenon, a block-structured AMR benchmark, on CPU-GPU systems. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Akash Poptani , Alireza Khadem , Scott Mahlke , Jonah Miller , Joshua Dolence , Reetuparna Das

Computational studies that use block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) approaches suffer from unnecessarily high mesh resolution in regions adjacent to important solution features. This deficiency limits the performance of AMR…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Brandon Gusto , Tomasz Plewa

Many engineering systems require accurate simulations of complex physical systems. Yet, analytical solutions are only available for simple problems, necessitating numerical approximations such as the Finite Element Method (FEM). The cost…

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

Numerical simulations of two-phase flow and fluid structure interaction problems are of great interest in many environmental problems and engineering applications. To capture the complex physical processes involved in these problems, a high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-02 Yadong Zeng

We consider the problem of the construction of the acoustic structure of arbitrary geometry with prescribed desired properties. We use optimization approach for the solution of this problem and minimize the Tikhonov functional on adaptively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Larisa Beilina , Eugene Smolkin

We propose a new algorithm for the design of topologically optimized lightweight structures, under a minimum compliance requirement. The new process enhances a standard level set formulation in terms of computational efficiency, thanks to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Davide Cortellessa , Nicola Ferro , Simona Perotto , Stefano Micheletti

Modern computing systems are capable of exascale calculations, which are revolutionizing the development and application of high-fidelity numerical models in computational science and engineering. While these systems continue to grow in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Graham Harper , Denis Ridzal , Tim Wildey

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

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…

Efforts to achieve better accuracy in numerical relativity have so far focused either on implementing second order accurate adaptive mesh refinement or on defining higher order accurate differences and update schemes. Here, we argue for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Oscar Reula

Adaptive mesh refinement is central to the efficient solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) via the finite element method (FEM). Classical $r$-adaptivity optimizes vertex positions but requires solving expensive auxiliary PDEs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Niccolò Grillo , James Rowbottom , Pietro Liò , Carola Bibiane Schönlieb , Stefania Fresca

This paper presents a heterogeneous adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework for efficient simulation of moderately stiff reactive problems. This framework features an elaborate subcycling-in-time algorithm along with a specialized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yuqi Wang , Yadong Zeng , Ralf Deiterding , Jianhan Liang

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

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

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is often used when solving time-dependent partial differential equations using numerical methods. It enables time-varying regions of much higher resolution, which can be used to track discontinuities in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Brisa N Davis , Randall J LeVeque

We present a novel framework for PDE-constrained $r$-adaptivity of high-order meshes. The proposed method formulates mesh movement as an optimization problem, with an objective function defined as a convex combination of a mesh quality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Tzanio Kolev , Boyan Lazarov , Ketan Mittal , Mathias Schmidt , Vladimir Tomov

This contribution introduces the idea of refinement patterns for the generation of optimal meshes in the context of the Finite Element Method. The main idea is to generate a library of possible patterns on which elements can be refined and…

This paper presents an adaptive discretization strategy for level set topology optimization of structures based on hierarchical B-splines. This work focuses on the influence of the discretization approach and the adaptation strategy on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-25 L. Noel , M. Schmidt , C. Messe , J. A. Evans , K. Maute

In the context of adaptive remeshing, the virtual element method provides significant advantages over the finite element method. The attractive features of the virtual element method, such as the permission of arbitrary element geometries,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Daniel van Huyssteen , Felipe Lopez Rivarola , Guillermo Etse , Paul Steinmann