A review and comparison of error estimators for anisotropic mesh adaptation for flow simulations

A Balan, MA Park, SL Wood, WK Anderson… - Computers & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Automated mesh adaptation is known to be an efficient way to control discretization errors in
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. It offers the added advantage that the …

Output-based adaptive Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes higher-order finite element solutions on a multielement airfoil

CI Ursachi, MC Galbraith, SR Allmaras, DL Darmofal - AIAA Journal, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
In this work, the effects of adaptivity and discretization order are studied on the solutions of a
two-dimensional multielement high-lift airfoil test case. The flow in this test case is simulated …

Fast High-Order Mesh Correction for Metric-Based Cavity Remeshing and a Posteriori Curving of P2 Tetrahedral Meshes

L Rochery, A Loseille - Computer-Aided Design, 2023 - Elsevier
A new high-order mesh correction method is introduced. Using the simplex algorithm, it
maximizes directly the minimum of all control coefficients depending on a control point. This …

High-Order Node Movement Discretization Error Control in Shape Optimization

DP Sanjaya, K Fidkowski - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2367. vid We present mesh node
movement as an effective discretization error control strategy for shape optimization …

Metris: An Open-Source High-Order Metric-Based Remesher

L Rochery, M Chiriac, MC Galbraith… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents Metris, a new piece of open source metric-based mesh adaptation
software. The main novelty of this software is its ability to handle high-order meshes, and to …

Error Sampling and Synthesis for High-Order Node Movement

DP Sanjaya, A Rangarajan… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
The presented work focuses on the error sampling and synthesis procedure within an
optimization framework for high-order, metric-based mesh adaptation in high-order, finite …

Warped-Element Refinement Method for Fluid Simulations with Moving or Deforming Domains

DP Sanjaya, LR Lipcius - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
We study practical strategies for producing optimal warped, finite-element meshes for
simulating flow problems involving mesh motions. Geometrical warping is obtained by …

On the Potential Impact of Curved Meshing for Higher-order Adaptive Mesh Simulations

C Womack - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
Higher order, adaptive finite element methods have demonstrated the ability to significantly
reduce the human and computational cost of accurately approximating the solution to partial …