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Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) offers a practical solution to reduce the computational cost and memory requirement of numerical simulations that use computational meshes. In this work, we introduce a novel smart methodology for adaptive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-23 Akash A. Patel , Masoud Safdari

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

Computationally solving the equations of elasticity is a key component in many materials science and mechanics simulations. Phenomena such as deformation-induced microstructure evolution, microfracture, and microvoid nucleation are examples…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Brandon Runnels , Vinamra Agrawal , Weiqun Zhang , Ann Almgren

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

This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Shanglong Zhang , Arun L. Gain , Julian A. Norato

Colliding flows are a commonly used scenario for the formation of molecular clouds in numerical simulations. Due to the thermal instability of the warm neutral medium, turbulence is produced by cooling. We carry out a two-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Markus Niklaus , Wolfram Schmidt , Jens C. Niemeyer

We present an improved method for topology optimization with both adaptive mesh refinement and derefinement. Since the total volume fraction in topology optimization is usually modest, after a few initial iterations the domain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Shun Wang , Eric de Sturler , Glaucio H. Paulino

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

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 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

Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including oil and gas recovery, carbon sequestration, and contaminant remediation. Numerical simulation of multiphase flow requires solving of a large, sparse linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Quan M. Bui , Lu Wang , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are continuum models used in the study of a wide range of plasma physics systems, including the evolution of complex plasma dynamics in tokamak disruptions. However, efficient numerical solution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Qi Tang , Luis Chacon , Tzanio V. Kolev , John N. Shadid , Xian-Zhu Tang

Simulating physical systems is essential in engineering, but analytical solutions are limited to straightforward problems. Consequently, numerical methods like the Finite Element Method (FEM) are widely used. However, the FEM becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Niklas Freymuth , Philipp Dahlinger , Tobias Würth , Simon Reisch , Luise Kärger , Gerhard Neumann

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is indispensable for efficient finite element analyses. However, its performance depends not only on the refinement itself but also on strategy to mark elements for refinement and the way it is tuned. This…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Oliver Wege , Kaan Atak , Marek Behr , Norbert Hosters

We present a high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with space-time adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) for the solution of the special relativistic hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations. By adopting a local discontinuous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-21 Olindo Zanotti , Michael Dumbser

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

We present here the first systematic treatment of the problems posed by the visualization and analysis of large-scale, parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations on an Eulerian grid. When compared to those obtained by constructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Guénolé Harel , Jacques-Bernard Lekien , Philippe P. Pébaÿ

In this paper we present a second-order and continuous interpolation algorithm for cell-centered adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) grids. Continuity requirement poses a non-trivial problem at resolution changes. We develop a classification of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dmitry Borovikov , Igor V. Sokolov , Gabor Toth

Unsteady cloud cavitating flow is detrimental to the efficiency of hydraulic machinery like pumps and propellers due to the resulting side-effects of vibration, noise and erosion damage. Modelling such a unsteady and highly turbulent flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-05 Dhruv Apte , Mingming Ge , Olivier Coutier-Delgosha

Performing a stable, long duration simulation of driven MHD turbulence with a high thermal Mach number and a strong initial magnetic field is a challenge to high-order Godunov ideal MHD schemes because of the difficulty in guaranteeing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pak Shing Li , Daniel F. Martin , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee