Astronomy and astrophysics

Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Simulations

by Bärbel Janssen (KTH)

Europe/Stockholm
FA31

FA31

Description
In this presentation an introduction to Finite Element Methods will be given. We will show the flexibility of this method and show different applications in high performance computing. Even today's computing power does not allow us to uniformly refine the mesh to get a desired accuracy. Adaptive refinement techniques are necessary. We will give an introduction to error estimation to control the adaptive mesh refinement optimally. Furthermore we will present the open source software in which this functionality is implemented.