Parallel Mesh Adaptive Techniques for Complex Flow Simulation: Geometry Conservation

Table 1

Grid sizes for adapted pipe blade calculations: with and without projection algorithm.

Adaptation step	With Projection			Without Projection
	N_nodes	N_elements	N_surf_el	N_nodes	N_elements	N_surf_el
First	6  024	29 110	4 458	6 011	29 077	4 440
Second	20 755	110 287	9 790	21 711	115 361	10 326
Third	86 876	493 771	22 264	95 565	538 420	27 318
Fourth	314 652	1 854 594	42 718	381 353	2 219 641	69 152