Title
An adaptive staggered-tilted grid for incompressible flow simulation
Abstract
AbstractEnabling adaptivity on a uniform Cartesian grid is challenging due to its highly structured grid cells and axis-aligned grid lines. In this paper, we propose a new grid structure - the adaptive staggered-tilted (AST) grid - to conduct adaptive fluid simulations on a regular discretization. The key mechanics underpinning our new grid structure is to allow the emergence of a new set of tilted grid cells from the nodal positions on a background uniform grid. The original axis-aligned cells, in conjunction with the populated axis-tilted cells, jointly function as the geometric primitives to enable adaptivity on a regular spatial discretization. By controlling the states of the tilted cells both temporally and spatially, we can dynamically evolve the adaptive discretizations on an Eulerian domain. Our grid structure preserves almost all the computational merits of a uniform Cartesian grid, including the cache-coherent data layout, the easiness for parallelization, and the existence of high-performance numerical solvers. Further, our grid structure can be integrated into other adaptive grid structures, such as an Octree or a sparsely populated grid, to accommodate the T-junction-free hierarchy. We demonstrate the efficacy of our AST grid by showing examples of large-scale incompressible flow simulation in domains with irregular boundaries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3414685.3417837
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fluid simulation, grid structure, adaptive simulation
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0730-0301
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuwei Xiao100.68
Szeyu Chan200.68
Siqi Wang300.34
Bo Zhu422717.31
Xubo Yang552553.59