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We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

A recently developed spectral-element adaptive refinement incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code [Rosenberg, Fournier, Fischer, Pouquet, J. Comp. Phys. 215, 59-80 (2006)] is applied to simulate the problem of MHD island coalescence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 C. S. Ng , D. Rosenberg , K. Germaschewski , A. Pouquet , A. Bhattacharjee

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

Under compressive creep, visco-plastic solids experiencing internal mass transfer processes have been recently proposed to accommodate singular cnoidal wave solutions, as material instabilities at the stationary wave limit. These…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Roberto J. Cier , Thomas Poulet , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo , Manolis Veveakis

An adaptive isogeometric method based on $d$-variate hierarchical spline constructions can be derived by considering a refine module that preserves a certain class of admissibility between two consecutive steps of the adaptive loop [6]. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Annalisa Buffa , Carlotta Giannelli , Philipp Morgenstern , Daniel Peterseim

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

This paper describes the open-source code Enzo, which uses block-structured adaptive mesh refinement to provide high spatial and temporal resolution for modeling astrophysical fluid flows. The code is Cartesian, can be run in 1, 2, and 3…

We develop a framework for studying the statistical properties of current sheets in numerical simulations of 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We describe an algorithm that identifies current sheets in a simulation snapshot and then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-27 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

The rigorous convergence analysis of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in strain-limiting elastic solids is presented. This work introduces two novel adaptive mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Sara Pollock

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

Sweet-Parker current sheets in high Lundquist number plasmas are unstable to tearing, suggesting they will not form in physical systems. Understanding magnetic reconnection thus requires study of the stability of a current sheet as it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Elizabeth A. Tolman , Nuno F. Loureiro , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

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

We present an efficient adaptive refinement procedure that preserves analysis-suitability of the T-mesh, this is, the linear independence of the T-spline blending functions. We prove analysis-suitability of the overlays and boundedness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Philipp Morgenstern , Daniel Peterseim

Adaptive meshing is a fundamental component of adaptive finite element methods. This includes refining and coarsening meshes locally. In this work, we are concerned with the red-green-blue refinement strategy in two dimensions and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Stefan A. Funken , Anja Schmidt

The problem of three-dimensional combined magnetic and velocity shear driven instabilities of a compressible magnetized jet modeled with a plane neutral/current double vortex sheet in the framework of the resistive magnetohydrodynamics is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lapo Bettarini , Simone Landi , Marco Velli , Pasquale Londrillo

We report on the development of a computational framework for the parallel, mesh-adaptive solution of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws like the time-dependent Euler equations in compressible gas dynamics or Magneto-Hydrodynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dreher , R. Grauer

Numerical evidence for a finite-time singularity in ideal 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is presented. The simulations start from two interlocking magnetic flux rings with no initial velocity. The magnetic curvature force causes the flux…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert M. Kerr , Axel Brandenburg

Given the importance of simulating hydromagnetic processes that impact star formation, we have earlier developed a 3D adaptive mesh approach that allows us to include hydromagnetic processes during the formation and evolution of cores,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. F. Duffin , R. E. Pudritz

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