Parallel Automated Adaptive Procedures for Unstructured Meshes

Abstract

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Parallel Control of Evolving Meshes 2.1 Mesh Data Structure to Support Geometry-Based Automated Adaptive Analysis 2.2 Partition Communication and Mesh Migration 2.2.1 Requirements of PMDB and Related Efforts 2.2.2 Distributed Mesh Model and Notation Used 2.2.3 Data Structures 2.2.4 Mesh Migration 2.2.5 Scalability of Mesh Migration and Extensions 2.3 Dynamic Load Balancing of Adaptively Evolving Meshes 2.3.1 Geometry-Based Dynamic Balancing Procedures 2.3.2 Topologically-Based Dynamic Balancing Procedures 3. Parallel Automatic Mesh Generation 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Background and Meshing Approach 3.3 Sequential Region Meshing 3.3.1 Underlying Octree 3.3.2 Template Meshing of Interior Octants 3.3.3 Face Removal 3.4 Parallel Constructs Required 3.4.1 Octree and Mesh Data Structures 3.4.2 Multiple Octant Migration 3.4.3 Dynamic Repartitioning 3.5 Parallel Region Meshing 3.5.1 Underlying Octree 3.5.2 Template Meshing of Interior Octants 3.5.3 Face Remova