Research Article

Parallel Mesh Adaptive Techniques Illustrated with Complex Compressible Flow Simulations

Table 2

Final grid sizes for different number of processors after 3 adaptation steps and after 1 adaptation step for 64 and 128 restarting from 32 final solution and grid. 3D wedge.

Processors N_nodesN_elementsN_surf_el

8 1 118 350 6 721 070 50 714
16 1 123 326 6 753 716 50 963
32 1 130 577 6 801 332 51 073
64 3 843 209 23 302 721 85 652
128 3 842 653 23 290 638 85 641