METHODS AND TOOLS FOR PARALLEL ANISOTROPIC MESH ADAPTATION AND ANALYSIS

It is well known that adaptive methods provide the most effective means to obtain reliable solutions and control the amount of computation required. However, for many classes of problems the best adaptive method still requires a level of computation that demands massively parallel computing. This paper presents a set of technologies for parallel adaptive simulation that includes a parallel mesh infrastructure, dynamic load balancing procedures and parallel anisotropic mesh adaptation. Examples of anisotropically adapted meshes for real-world fluid flow problems, including boundary layer meshes, are given.

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