Research Article

Parallel Mesh Adaptive Techniques Illustrated with Complex Compressible Flow Simulations

Table 1

Final grid sizes for different number of processors after 4 adaptation steps. 2D NACA 0012 airfoil.

Processors N_nodes N_elements N_surf_el

1 35 130 69 615 645
2 35 082 69 527 637
4 34 335 68 031 639
8 34 839 69 035 643