Recursive Algorithms for Distributed Forests of Octrees

The forest-of-octrees approach to parallel adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening has recently been demonstrated in the context of a number of large-scale PDE-based applications. Efficient reference software has been made freely available to the public both in the form of the standalone \tt p4est library and more indirectly by the general-purpose finite element library \tt deal.II, which has been equipped with a \tt p4est backend. Although linear octrees, which store only leaf octants, have an underlying tree structure by definition, it is not fully exploited in previously published mesh-related algorithms. This is because tree branches are not explicitly stored and because the topological relationships in meshes, such as the adjacency between cells, introduce dependencies that do not respect the octree hierarchy. In this work, we combine hierarchical and topological relationships between octants to design efficient recursive algorithms that operate on distributed forests of octrees. We present three imp...

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