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Astrophysical relativistic flow problems require high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. In this paper, we describe a new parallel three-dimensional code for simulations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Weiqun Zhang

We present the first high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in multiple space dimensions. High order spatial accuracy is obtained through a WENO reconstruction, while a high order one-step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Michael Dumbser , Olindo Zanotti , Arturo Hidalgo , Dinshaw S. Balsara

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

Block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) provides the basis for the temporal and spatial discretization strategy for a number of ECP applications in the areas of accelerator design, additive manufacturing, astrophysics, combustion,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew Myers , Kevin Gott , Ann Almgren , John Bell

Multiphase flows are an important class of fluid flow and their study facilitates the development of diverse applications in industrial, natural, and biomedical systems. We consider a model that uses a continuum description of both phases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-04 Bindi M. Nagda , Aaron Barrett , Boyce E. Griffith , Aaron L. Fogelson , Jian Du

We construct a class of linear partial differential equations describing general perturbations of non-rotating black holes in 3D Cartesian coordinates. In contrast to the usual approach, a single equation treats all radiative $\ell -m$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Philippos Papadopoulos , Edward Seidel , Lee Wild

We use rigorous techniques from numerical analysis of hyperbolic equations in bounded domains to construct stable finite-difference schemes for Numerical Relativity, in particular for their use in black hole excision. As an application, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gioel Calabrese , Luis Lehner , David Neilsen , Jorge Pullin , Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We describe a grid-based numerical method for 3D hydrodynamic cosmological simulations which is adaptive in space and time and combines the best features of higher order--accurate Godunov schemes for Eulerian hydrodynamics with adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Michael L. Norman , Greg L. Bryan

Wave equations help us to understand phenomena ranging from earthquakes to tsunamis. These phenomena materialise over very large scales. It would be computationally infeasible to track them over a regular mesh. Yet, since the phenomena are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Timothy Stokes , Tobias Weinzierl , Han Zhang , Baojiu Li

This paper presents new variants of the averaged alternating modified reflections (AAMR) method for the best approximation problem. Under a mild constraint qualification, we first show its weak convergence and then establish a convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Shin-ya Matsushita

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is necessary for efficient finite element simulations of complex physical phenomenon, as it allocates limited computational budget based on the need for higher or lower resolution, which varies over space and…

We study dendritic microstructure evolution using an adaptive grid, finite element method applied to a phase-field model. The computational complexity of our algorithm, per unit time, scales linearly with system size, rather than the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nikolas Provatas , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

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

We have written and tested a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, capable of evolving MHD fluids in dynamical spacetimes with adaptive-mesh refinement (AMR). Our code solves the Einstein-Maxwell-MHD system of coupled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

Direct discretization of continuum kinetic equations, like the Vlasov equation, are under-utilized because the distribution function generally exists in a high-dimensional (>3D) space and computational cost increases geometrically with…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-04 J. A. F. Hittinger , J. W. Banks

We present a new numerical algorithm for the solution of coupled collisional and collisionless systems, based on the block structured adaptive mesh and time refinement strategy (AMR). We describe the issues associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Miniati , Phillip Colella

The averaged alternating modified reflections (AAMR) method is a projection algorithm for finding the closest point in the intersection of convex sets to any arbitrary point in a Hilbert space. This method can be seen as an adequate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Rubén Campoy

We present here the result of continuation work, performed to further fulfill the vision we outlined in [Harel,Lekien,P\'eba\"y-2017] for the visualization and analysis of tree-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations, using the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Guénolé Harel , Jacques-Bernard Lekien , Philippe P. Pébaÿ

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