Parallel Mesh Adaptive Techniques for Complex Flow Simulation: Geometry Conservation

Table 2

Grid sizes for adapted channel bump calculations and relative flow solver step—with and without projection algorithm.

Adaptation/	Projection			No projection
flow-step	N_nodes	N_elements	N_surf_el	N_nodes	N_elements	N_surf_el
First-flow 1	600	2 058	908	600	2 058	908
Second-flow 2	1 731	7 390	1 804	1 717	7 318	1 800
Third-flow 3	5 104	25 204	3 506	4 952	24 373	3 430
Fourth-flow 5	13 362	71 143	6 388	15 625	84 313	6 716
Fifth-flow 6	31 933	179 573	10 236	48 158	273 635	12 830