Adaptive Mesh Refinement for High Accuracy Wall Loss Determination in Accelerating Cavity Design

This paper presents the improvement in wall loss determination when adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods are used with the parallel finite element eigensolver Omega3P. We show that significant reduction in the number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) as well as a faster rate of convergence can be achieved as compared with results from uniform mesh refinement in determining cavity wall loss to a desired accuracy. Test cases for which measurements are available will be examined, and comparison with uniform refinement results will be discussed.