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Conservative semi‐Lagrangian advection on adaptive unstructured meshes
Author(s) -
Iske Armin,
Käser Martin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
numerical methods for partial differential equations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.901
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1098-2426
pISSN - 0749-159X
DOI - 10.1002/num.10100
Subject(s) - advection , polygon mesh , voronoi diagram , mathematics , lagrangian , mathematical optimization , partial differential equation , partial derivative , upwind scheme , scheme (mathematics) , computer science , algorithm , mathematical analysis , geometry , discretization , physics , thermodynamics
A conservative semi‐Lagrangian method is designed in order to solve linear advection equations in two space variables. The advection scheme works with finite volumes on an unstructured mesh, which is given by a Voronoi diagram. Moreover, the mesh is subject to adaptive modifications during the simulation, which serves to effectively combine good approximation quality with small computational costs. The required adaption rules for the refinement and the coarsening of the mesh rely on a customized error indicator. The implementation of boundary conditions is addressed. Numerical results finally confirm the good performance of the proposed conservative and adaptive advection scheme. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 20: 388–411, 2004