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This work introduces a novel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) method that utilizes dominant balance analysis (DBA) for efficient and accurate grid adaptation in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The proposed method leverages a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-06 Gaurav Kumar , Aditya G. Nair

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…

Solving the shallow water equations efficiently is critical to the study of natural hazards induced by tsunami and storm surge, since it provides more response time in an early warning system and allows more runs to be done for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xinsheng Qin , Randall LeVeque , Michael Motley

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

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

As supercomputers advance towards exascale capabilities, computational intensity increases significantly, and the volume of data requiring storage and transmission experiences exponential growth. Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) has emerged…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Daoce Wang , Jesus Pulido , Pascal Grosset , Jiannan Tian , Sian Jin , Houjun Tang , Jean Sexton , Sheng Di , Zarija Lukić , Kai Zhao , Bo Fang , Franck Cappello , James Ahrens , Dingwen Tao

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) reduces computational costs in CFD by concentrating resolution where needed, but efficiently embedding complex, non-aligned geometries on GPUs remains challenging. We present a GPU-native algorithm for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer E. Essel , Pierre E. Sullivan

We present GAMER-2, a GPU-accelerated adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code for astrophysics. It provides a rich set of features, including adaptive time-stepping, several hydrodynamic schemes, magnetohydrodynamics, self-gravity, particles,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-05 Hsi-Yu Schive , John A. ZuHone , Nathan J. Goldbaum , Matthew J. Turk , Massimo Gaspari , Chin-Yu Cheng

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that combines multiresolution (MR) techniques with the flux reconstruction (FR) method to accurately and effciently simulate compressible flows. We achieve further enhancements in effciency…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yixuan Lian , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

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

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

Accurately and efficiently simulating complex fluid dynamics is a challenging task that has traditionally relied on computationally intensive methods. Neural network-based approaches, such as convolutional and graph neural networks, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zeyi Xu , Jinfan Liu , Kuangxu Chen , Ye Chen , Zhangli Hu , Bingbing Ni

Mesh-based Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently shown capabilities to simulate complex multiphysics problems with accelerated performance times. However, mesh-based GNNs require a large number of message-passing (MP) steps and suffer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Roberto Perera , Vinamra Agrawal

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 a new polynomial-free prolongation scheme for Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations of compressible and incompressible computational fluid dynamics. The new method is constructed using a multi-dimensional kernel-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Steven I. Reeves , Dongwook Lee , Adam Reyes , Carlo Graziani , Petros Tzeferacos

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

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

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

When numerically solving partial differential equations, for a given problem and operating condition, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) has proven its efficiency to automatically build a discretization achieving a prescribed accuracy at low…

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