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BULLETIN of the POLISH ACADEMY of SCIENCES: TECHNICAL SCIENCES
Volume 55, Issue 2, June 2007

Micro and Nano-scale mechanics

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Parallel adaptive computation of some time-dependent materials-related microstructural problems

M. DO-QUANG, W. VILLANUEVA, I. SINGER-LOGINOVA and G. AMBERG
Some materials-related microstructural problems calculated using the phase-field method are presented. It is well known that the phase field method requires mesh resolution of a diffuse interface. This makes the use of mesh adaptivity essential especially for fast evolving interfaces and other transient problems. Complex problems in 3D are also computationally challenging so that parallel computations are considered necessary. In this paper, a parallel adaptive finite element scheme is proposed. The scheme keeps the level of node and edge for 2D and level of node and face for 3D instead of the complete history of refinements to facilitate derefinement. The information is local and exchange of information is minimized and also less memory is used. The parallel adaptive algorithms that run on distributed memory machines are implemented in the numerical simulation of dendritic growth and capillary-driven flows.
Key words:

parallel computing, adaptive finite element method, dendritic growth, wetting


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