An Adaptive Fast Interface Tracking Method

An Adaptive Fast Interface Tracking Method

Year:    2015

Author:    Yana Di, Jelena Popovic, Olof Runborg

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 33 (2015), Iss. 6 : pp. 576–586

Abstract

An adaptive numerical scheme is developed for the propagation of an interface in a velocity field based on the fast interface tracking method proposed in [2]. A multiresolution stategy to represent the interface instead of point values, allows local grid refinement while controlling the approximation error on the interface. For time integration, we use an explicit Runge-Kutta scheme of second-order with a multiscale time step, which takes longer time steps for finer spatial scales. The implementation of the algorithm uses a dynamic tree data structure to represent data in the computer memory. We briefly review first the main algorithm, describe the essential data structures, highlight the adaptive scheme, and illustrate the computational efficiency by some numerical examples.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1503-m4532

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 33 (2015), Iss. 6 : pp. 576–586

Published online:    2015-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    11

Keywords:    Interface tracking Multiresolution adaptivity Fast algorithms

Author Details

Yana Di

Jelena Popovic

Olof Runborg

  1. Adaptive fast interface tracking methods

    Popovic, Jelena

    Runborg, Olof

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