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One difficulty in developing numerical methods for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws is the fact that solutions often contain regions where much higher resolution is required than elsewhere in the domain, particularly since the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Brisa N. Davis , Randall J. LeVeque

We present an adaptive variational procedure for unstructured meshes to capture fluid-fluid interfaces in two-phase flows. The two phases are modeled by the phase-field finite element formulation, which involves the conservative Allen-Cahn…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev K. Jaiman

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

Algorithms that promise to leverage resources of quantum computers efficiently to accelerate the finite element method have emerged. However, the finite element method is usually incorporated into a high-level numerical scheme which allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Elise Fressart , Michel Nowak , Nicole Spillane

A new code and methodology are introduced for solving the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations in fixed background spacetimes using time-explicit, finite-volume discretization. The code has options for solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile , Jay D. Salmonson

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

We present a new algorithm for numerical magnetohydrodynamics on staggered meshes preserving $\nabla \cdot B = 0$. Our algorithm is based on the constrained transport method and supports both cell-based adaptive mesh refinement and temporal…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Ilja Honkonen , Riku Jarvinen , David Phillips

Anisotropic mesh adaptation is studied for linear finite element solution of 3D anisotropic diffusion problems. The M-uniform mesh approach is used, where an anisotropic adaptive mesh is generated as a uniform one in the metric specified by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Xianping Li , Weizhang Huang

In recent work we have shown how an accurate reduced model can be utilized to perform mesh refinement in random space. That work relied on the explicit knowledge of an accurate reduced model which is used to monitor the transfer of activity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Jing Li , Panos Stinis

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

In this paper, we construct a robust adaptive central-upwind scheme on unstructured triangular grids for two-dimensional shallow water equations with variable density. The method is well-balanced, positivity-preserving, and oscillation-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Thuong Nguyen

This paper presents a novel p-adaptive, high-order mesh-free framework for the accurate and efficient simulation of fluid flows in complex geometries. High-order differential operators are constructed locally for arbitrary node…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ruofeng Feng , Jack R. C. King , Steven J. Lind

The magnetohydrodynamic current-vortex sheet is a free boundary problem involving a moving free surface separating two plasma regions. We prove the global nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the two dimensional ideal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yuan Cai , Zhen Lei

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

We investigate using direct numerical simulations with grids up to 1536^3 points, the rate at which small scales develop in a decaying three-dimensional MHD flow both for deterministic and random initial conditions. Parallel current and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet , D. C. Montgomery

We find and investigate via numerical simulations self-sustained two-dimensional turbulence in a magnetohydrodynamic flow with a maximally simple configuration: plane, noninflectional (with a constant shear of velocity) and threaded by a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. R. Mamatsashvili , D. Z. Gogichaishvili , G. D. Chagelishvili , W. Horton

The fluid-scale evolution of relativistic magnetic reconnection is investigated by using two-fluid and magnetofluid simulation models. Relativistic two-fluid simulations demonstrate the meso-scale evolution beyond the kinetic scales, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-17 Seiji Zenitani , Michael Hesse , Alex Klimas

We introduce a new analysis of an adaptive mixture method that combines outputs of two constituent filters running in parallel to model an unknown desired signal. This adaptive mixture is shown to achieve the mean square error (MSE)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Mehmet A. Donmez , Sait Tunc , Suleyman S. Kozat

In this fluid dynamics video, results from high fidelity numerical simulations are presented, which have been carried out to study the flow and droplet dynamics of liquid sheets formed by two impinging jets. A three-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Xiaodong Chen , Prashant Khare , Dongjun Ma , Vigor Yang

An adaptive moving mesh finite element method is studied for the numerical solution of the porous medium equation with and without variable exponents and absorption. The method is based on the so-called moving mesh partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Cuong Ngo , Weizhang Huang