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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

We describe a powerful methodology for numerical solution of 3-D self-gravitational hydrodynamics problems with extremely high resolution. Our method utilizes the technique of local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), employing multiple grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher , Christopher F. McKee , J. Kelly Truelove

We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot , Dominique Aubert , Timothy Stranex , Romain Teyssier

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

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

We present an administration technique for the bookkeeping of adaptive mesh refinement on (hyper-)rectangular meshes. Our technique is a unified approach for h-refinement on 1-, 2- and 3D domains, which is easy to use and avoids traversing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Niklas Kolbe , Nikolaos Sfakianakis

We present a new three-dimensional radiative transfer (RT) code, RADAMESH, based on a ray-tracing, photon-conserving and adaptive (in space and time) scheme. RADAMESH uses a novel Monte Carlo approach to sample the radiation field within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sebastiano Cantalupo , Cristiano Porciani

A method for adaptive model order reduction for nonsmooth discrete element simulation is developed and analysed in numerical experiments. Regions of the granular media that collectively move as rigid bodies are substituted with rigid bodies…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Martin Servin , Da Wang

We present a fourth-order projection method with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) for numerically solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE) with subcycling in time. Our method features (i) a reformulation of INSE so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Shubo Zhao , Qinghai Zhang

Variational inequalities play a pivotal role in a wide array of scientific and engineering applications. This project presents two techniques for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the context of variational inequalities, with a specific…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Giuliano Stefano Fochesatto

The last decade has seen applications of Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) methods for a wide range of problems from space physics to cosmology. With the advent of these methods, in which space is discretized into a mesh of many individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Argyro Tasitsiomi

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

We present the newly developed code, GAMER (GPU-accelerated Adaptive MEsh Refinement code), which has adopted a novel approach to improve the performance of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) astrophysical simulations by a large factor with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 Hsi-Yu Schive , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

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

The cost and accuracy of simulating complex physical systems using the Finite Element Method (FEM) scales with the resolution of the underlying mesh. Adaptive meshes improve computational efficiency by refining resolution in critical…

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

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

We compare two different codes for simulations of cosmological structure formation to investigate the sensitivity of hydrodynamical instabilities to numerics, in particular, the hydro solver and the application of adaptive mesh refinement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 W. Schmidt , J. Schulz , L. Iapichino , F. Vazza , A. S. Almgren

Simulating space plasma in a global scale is computationally demanding. Modeling different regions with different resolution can save computational resources without compromising too much on simulation accuracy. This thesis examines…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Leo Kotipalo

Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (Structured AMR) enables simulations to adapt the domain resolution to save computation and storage, and has become one of the dominant data representations used by scientific simulations; however,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ingo Wald , Stefan Zellmann , Will Usher , Nate Morrical , Ulrich Lang , Valerio Pascucci