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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

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

In this work, we revisit the marking decisions made in the standard adaptive finite element method (AFEM). Experience shows that a na\"{i}ve marking policy leads to inefficient use of computational resources for adaptive mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Andrew Gillette , Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides

Several applications in astrophysics require adequately resolving many physical and temporal scales which vary over several orders of magnitude. Adaptive mesh refinement techniques address this problem effectively but often result in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Matthew Anderson , Maciej Brodowicz , Hartmut Kaiser , Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach , Thomas Sterling

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

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

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…

Today's scientific simulations generate exceptionally large volumes of data, challenging the capacities of available I/O bandwidth and storage space. This necessitates a substantial reduction in data volume, for which error-bounded lossy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Daoce Wang , Jesus Pulido , Pascal Grosset , Jiannan Tian , James Ahrens , Dingwen Tao

Numerical evolution of the spherically symmetric, massive Klein-Gordon field is presented using a new adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code with fourth order discretization in space and time, along with compactification in space. The system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Csizmadia

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

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

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

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…

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

This article presents a hardware architecture independent implementation of an adaptive mesh refinement Poisson solver that is integrated into the electrostatic Particle-In-Cell beam dynamics code OPAL. The Poisson solver is solely based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Matthias Frey , Andreas Adelmann , Uldis Locans

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

I consider techniques for Berger-Oliger adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) when numerically solving partial differential equations with wave-like solutions, using characteristic (double-null) grids. Such AMR algorithms are naturally recursive,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jonathan Thornburg

Morphological reconstruction (MR) is often employed by seeded image segmentation algorithms such as watershed transform and power watershed as it is able to filter seeds (regional minima) to reduce over-segmentation. However, MR might…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Tao Lei , Xiaohong Jia , Tongliang Liu , Shigang Liu , Hongying Meng , Asoke K. Nandi

In this paper we introduce a block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) software framework that incorporates tiling, a well-known loop transformation. Because the multiscale, multiphysics codes built in BoxLib are designed to solve…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Weiqun Zhang , Ann Almgren , Marcus Day , Tan Nguyen , John Shalf , Didem Unat

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) is becoming a prevalent data representation for scientific visualization. Resulting from large fluid mechanics simulations, the data is usually cell centric, imposing a number of challenges for high quality…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Stefan Zellmann , Qi Wu , Alper Sahistan , Kwan-Liu Ma , Ingo Wald