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Self adaptive mesh refinement dynamically matches the computational demands of a solver for partial differential equations to the activity in the application’s domain. In this paper we present two C++ class libraries, P++ and AMR++, which significantly simplify the development of sophisticated adaptive mesh refinement codes on (massively) parallel distributed memory architectures. The development is based on our previous research in this area. The C++ class libraries provide abstractions to separate the issues of developing parallel adaptive mesh refinement applications into those of parallelism, abstracted by P++, and adaptive mesh refinement, abstracted by AMR++. P++ is a parallel array class library to permit efficient development of architecture independent codes for structured grid applications, and AMR++ provides support for self adaptive mesh refinement on block-structured grids of rectangular non overlapping blocks. Using these libraries the application programmers’ work is greatly simplified to primarily specifying the serial single grid application, and obtaining the parallel and self adaptive mesh refinement code with minimal effort.
First results for simple singular perturbation problems solved by self adaptive multilevel techniques (FAC, AFAC), being implemented on the basis of prototypes of the P++/AMR++ environment, are presented. Singular perturbation problems frequently arise in large applications, e.g. in the area of computational fluid dynamics. They usually have solutions with layers which require adaptive mesh refinement and fast basic solvers in order to be resolved efficiently.
This research has been supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant number NASI-18606 and the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) under PARANUSS, grant number ITR 900689.
Part of work belongs to the author’s dissertation.
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Lemke, M., Witsch, K., Quinlan, D. (1994). An Object-Oriented Approach for Parallel Self Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Block Structured Grids. In: Hackbusch, W., Wittum, G. (eds) Adaptive Methods — Algorithms, Theory and Applications. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM). Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14246-1_14
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