Parallel Incremental Adaptivity for Unstructured Meshes in Two Dimensions
Thesis 2006
Publication Type: MS Thesis
Repository URL: ParfumAdaptivity
Abstract
Many applications use unstructured meshes for solving a variety of
problems in various fields of science and engineering. Most of
these applications solve problems over irregular domains and tend
to use unstructured meshing software. Applications could be brain
models, climate models or engineering models to study material
deformation and weapons strength. Apart from solid meshes, there
exists a huge set of applications that solve computational fluid
dynamics problems over meshes. Millions of lines of mesh framework
source code exists to satisfy these applications. Most of these
frameworks do not simultaneously support parallelism and geometric
adaptivity - 'coarsening and refinement'. Parallel adaptivity is a
challenging problem of significance to application scientists. They
would like to be able to adaptively give more importance to one
part of the problem being studied, while keeping the computational
requirements from blowing up. This requires the ability to refine
parts of a mesh while at the same time coarsen other parts. The
contribution of this thesis is a novel way to perform parallel
adaptivity on large meshes. This thesis introduces an incremental
method to perform parallel adaptivity. We define a set of primitive
operations on a mesh and use these to design a set of atomic
operations to perform adaptivity in parallel. Incremental
operations give us a very low level tool for modifying the mesh.
This gives a lot of power and flexibility to modify the mesh in any
way one wants. The entire adaptive component is implemented as part
of ParFUM, a parallel mesh framework. Moreover, scientific and
engineering applications are successfully using or trying to use
the parallel adaptivity presented in this thesis. These
applications include engineering mechanics applications and
Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin applications.
TextRef
Nilesh Choudhury, "Parallel Incremental adaptivity for Unstructured Meshes in
Two Dimensions", Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
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