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Software Development

We will develop the extensions to the layered AMR tools required to support the applications specified above. This includes the fourth-order Mehrstellen discretizations of Poisson's equation required to support the method of local corrections [4,3] and other particle-particle particle-mesh methods, and the coupling of those methods to embedded boundary discretizations of irregular geometries. We will also begin to develop latency-tolerant solvers for constant coefficient elliptic problems along the lines of the approach used in [5]. In this approach, one uses potential theory to construct a domain decomposition method that requires only one iteration between the local solves and the global coarse solve. This is comparison to the more traditional iterative approaches, such as the additive Schwartz procedure, that require many iterations between the local and global solutions.


Phil Colella 2002-03-04