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Adaptive Embedded/Immersed Unstructured Grid Techniques

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Embedded mesh, immersed body or ficticious domain techniques have been used for many years as a way to discretize geometrically complex domains with structured grids. The use of such techniques within adaptive, unstructured grid solvers is relatively recent. The combination of body-fitted functionality for some portion of the domain, together with embedded mesh or immersed body functionality for another portion of the domain offers great advantages, which are increasingly being exploited. The present paper reviews the methodology from an implementational perspective.

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    Rainald Löhner, Juan R. Cebral & Fernando F. Camelli

  2. Advanced Technology Group, SAIC, SAIC Drive, McLean, VA, 22020, USA

    Joseph D. Baum, Eric L. Mestreau & Orlando A. Soto

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Löhner, R., Cebral, J.R., Camelli, F.F. et al. Adaptive Embedded/Immersed Unstructured Grid Techniques. Arch Computat Methods Eng 14, 279–301 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-007-9008-4

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