RADAPTThe command radapt performs r-adaption on 2D or 3D mesh objects. For simple smoothing see command smooth. radapt takes a 2D or 3D mesh object and moves nodes (specifically the nodes selected by ifirst,ilast,istride), without changing the connectivity of the grid, in order to adapt the mesh to best capture the behavior of a specified field or to an adaptionfunction (fadpt) supplied by the user.
There are two adaptive smoothing algorithms available:FORMAT:
1. esug --- Elliptic Smoothing for Unstructured Grids. This can only be used on triangular 2D mesh objects. If field is specified in the command line, esug will attempt to adapt the grid to the specified field. If the keyword user is specified in the command line, esug will attempt to adapt the grid to an adaption function defined by the user-supplied subroutine fadpt. (Ahmed Khamayseh and Andrew Kuprat, "Anisotropic Smoothing and Solution Adaption for Unstructured Grids", Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., Vol. 39, pp. 3163-3174 (1996)).
2. mega --- Minimum Error Gradient Adaption. For adaptive smoothing purposes, mega can only be used on 3D meshes, and only in conjunction with a user-supplied subroutine fadpt or with a user specified attribute field. If adaption is to an attribute field, then radapt may be instructed to use the interpolation mode associated with the attribute to refresh the attribute values. The default is stale in which case the attribute value will not be updated to reflect the new node position. In either case, the user is cautioned to carefully consider the validity of the data used for the adaption. mega can be used to adapt hybrid meshes as well as tetrahedral meshes. (Randolph E. Bank and R. Kent Smith, "Mesh Smoothing Using A Posteriori Error Estimates", SIAM J. Num. Anal. Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp. 979-997 (1997))
In the field adaption form, the user has specified a valid field from the current mesh object, and r-adaption is to be based upon this field. Typically, if the field has large gradients or curvature in a particular region, r-adaption using this field will cause nodes to be attracted to the region of interest. (esug adapts especially to large gradients, mega adapts especially to large second derivatives---"curvature".) If adaption is to an attribute field, then radapt may be instructed to use the interpolation mode associated with the attribute field to refresh the attribute values. The default is stale in which case the attribute value will not be updated to reflect the new node position adaption. In this case, the user should reduce the number of adaption iterations to less than 4, since r-adaption with stale data becomes meaningless. (See maxiter_sm variable description below.) The user takes on the task of refreshing the field values by e.g. re-solving a PDE for the new field values on the new mesh. If refresh is specified, the r-adaption routine will automatically interpolate the new field values every iteration, using a call to the doping command. In this case, the number of adaption iterations need not be reduced from the default value of 25. In either case, the user is cautioned to carefully consider the validity of the data used for the adaption.
In the user form, the mesh will r-adapt to the function returned by the subroutine fadpt which must be supplied by the user.
Specifying position signifies that the x-y-z values of the nodes in the current mesh object will be altered. (Other argument values allow for modification options that are not yet implemented.)
If esug is used (currently available in 2D only), the degree of node adaption will depend on the scale of the specified field. In this case, the results of adaption of the grid to the field can be altered by using one or more field commands beforehand to modify the field. For example, by increasing the scale of a field using field/scale, the esug algorithm will produce grids with increased numbers of nodes in the regions where the field experiences relatively large gradients. By volume averaging a field using field/volavg, esug will cause a more gentle form of adaption with a better grading of elements. By composing the values of the field with log or asinh using field /compose, one can cause esug to shift nodes to where the logarithm (or hyperbolic arcsine) of the field has interesting features, rather than where the field itself has interesting features. Note: Since the mega adaptive smoothing algorithm is rigorously based on error minimization, it is in general of little or no value to modify the adaption function for this algorithm. In particular, rescaling has no effect on the output.
The code variable maxiter_sm (default=25) can be set using the assign command before calling radapt. This controls the maximum number of adaption iterations to be performed by radapt. If convergence is detected , fewer iterations will be performed. If field data is allowed to become stale during the course of r-adaption, maxiter_sm should be reduced (e.g. less than 4).radapt /[position]/ [esug|mega]/[ifirst,ilast,istride] /[field]/EXAMPLES:
[refresh|stale]
radapt / [position]/ [esug|mega ]/ [ifirst,ilast,istride] / [user]Using esug, adapt all nodes in 2dmesh to the density field. Do not update data.FORMAT FOR fadpt:radapt / / esug / 1,0,0 / densityAssuming a default 3D cmo, use mega to adapt the mesh to the adaption function supplied by the user via subroutine fadpt. Afterwards dope the density field with the fadpt function values.radapt / / / 1,0,0 / user
doping / user / density / set /1,0,0/subroutine fadpt(xvec,yvec,zvec,imtvec,nvec,time,fvec)
xvec, yvec, zvec --- Vectors of x, y, and z coordinates of the points where the function is to be evaluated.
imtvec --- Vector of imt values (material types) for the case where function value depends on material type as well as position (ie. functions with discontinuities).
nvec --- Vector length (= number of places where function is to be evaluated).time --- Time (scalar), for time-dependent functions.
fvec --- Vector of adaption function values.
SAMPLE FUNCTIONS AND INPUT DECKSTo demonstrate adaptive smoothing using mega, examples are available which use the files fadpt_boron.f,input.boron.3dtet,input.boron.3dhex,fadpt_gyro.f, input.gyro.3dtet,input.gyro.3dhex.
1. Boron density function fadpt_boron.f. Load the file fadpt_boron.f ahead of the LaGriT libraries; this will cause the default fadpt subroutine to be displaced by the one in this file. The result is that now 3D adaptive smoothing will attempt to adapt 3D tetrahedral or hybrid meshes to the boron density function devised by Kent Smith of Bell Labs. This function has a maximum value of 1.1 x 1018, and drops rapidly to zero; the function attains its largest values on a T-shaped region in space and provides very challenging isosurfaces to capture. Two input decks use this function:a. input.boron.3dtet. This deck generates and adapts a tetrahedral mesh to the boron function. A snapshot of the adapted grid may be seen at boron.png.2. "Gyroscope function" fadpt_gyro.f. This function has large second derivatives near three rings of unit diameter which are aligned with each of the three coordinate planes which pass through the origin. Adaption to this function results in the pulling of the grid towards the rings when running the following two input decks:
b. input.boron.3dhex. This deck generates and adapts a hexahedral mesh to the boron function. A snapshot of the adapted grid may be seen at boron.hex.png.a. input.gyro.3dtet. This deck generates and adapts a tetrahedral mesh to the "gyroscope" function. A snapshot of the adapted grid may be seen at gyro.png.RELEVANT LaGriT VARIABLE FOR radapt
b. input.gyro.3dhex. This deck generates and adapts a hexahedral mesh to the "gyr/scope" function. A snapshot of the adapted grid may be seen at gyro.hex.png.
The maxiter_sm variable is provided to control the maximum number of iterations used by radapt on a single call. By default, this variable is set to 25, but this can be changed by the user. For example,
assign / / / maxiter_sm / 50
changes the maximum number of iterations to 50. If radapt detects a sufficient amount of convergence, it will terminate smoothing in less than maxiter_sm iterations.