Geophysical-astrophysical spectral-element adaptive refinement (GASpAR): Object-oriented h-adaptive fluid dynamics simulation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-80

  Rosenberg, Duane ^a   Fournier, Aimé ^a   Fischer, Paul ^c   Pouquet, Annick ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh; AMR; Numerical simulation; Spectral element

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ADAPTIVE MESHES; ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; AMR; DYNAMIC-ADAPTIVE; FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; H-ADAPTIVE; MULTISCALE PROBLEM; OBJECT ORIENTED; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; SPECTRAL METHODS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33645849804     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.10.031     Document Type: Article

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