AMR++: Object-oriented design for adaptive mesh refinement

Conference · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:677139

Quinlan, D

The development of object-oriented libraries for scientific computing is complicated by the wide range of applications that are targeted and the complexity and wide range of numerical methods that are used. A problem is to design a library that can be customized to handle a wide range of target applications and increasingly complex numerical methods while maintaining a sufficiently useful library for simple problems. These problems have been classically at odds with one another and have compromised the design of many object-oriented library solutions. In this paper the authors detail the mechanisms used within AMR**, and object-oriented library for Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR), to provide the level of extensibility that is required to make AMR++ easily customizable for the more obscure applications while remaining small and simple for less complex applications. The goal has been to have a complex applications. The goal has been to have a complexity that matches the complexity of the target application. These mechanisms are general and extend to other libraries as well.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., Computing, Information, and Communications Div., NM (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Management and Administration, Washington, DC (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 677139
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--98-293; CONF-980509--; ON: DE99000678
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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