Unstructured mesh adaptation has already revealed very efficient for computing an accurate solution in a reasonnable amount of time on current PC architectures. Two features are still missing in the adaptation scheme: (i) the creation of arbitrary anisotropic meshes and (ii) the capture of transient phenomena. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a global scheme suitable to compute steady-state as well as transient problems, based on anisotropic mesh adaptation. Several examples of numerical simulations in CFD are provided to emphasize the efficiency of the proposed approach.
Pascal J. Frey, Frédéric Alauzet