$h-$ and $r-$ adaptation on simplicial meshes using MMG tools

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advancements in r- and h-adaptation techniques for simplicial meshes, leveraging the Mmg remeshing platform, with applications in surface identification, conformal meshing, and immersed boundary flow simulations.

Contribution

It introduces improvements in r-adaptation methods for embedded fronts and discusses the parallel implementation of the Mmg platform for enhanced performance.

Findings

Effective surface identification using level-set adaptation

Successful conformal 3D mesh generation and error control

Enhanced r-adaptation methods for embedded fronts

Abstract

We review some recent work on the enhancement and application of both r- and h- adaptation techniques, benefitting of the functionalities of the remeshing platform Mmg: www.mmgtools.org. Several contributions revolve around the level-set adaptation capabilities of the platform. These have been used to identify complex surfaces and then to either produce conformal 3D meshes, or to define a metric allowing to perform h-adaptation and control geometrical errors in the context of immersed boundary flow simulations. The performance of the recent distributed memory parallel implementation ParMmg is also discussed. In a similar spirit, we propose some improvements of $r-$adaptation methods to handle embedded fronts.