In the recent past, the field of scientific computing has become of more and more importance for scientific as well as for industrial research, playing a comparable role as experiment and theory do. This success of computational methods in scientific and engineering research is next to the enormous improvement of computer hardware to a large extend due to contributions from applied mathematicians, who have developed algorithms which make real life applications feasible. Examples are adaptive methods, high order discretization, fast linear and non-linear solvers and multi-level methods. The application of these methods in a large class of problems demands for suitable and robust tools for a flexible and efficient implementation. In order to play a crucial role in scientific and engineering research, besides efficiency in the numerical solution, also efficiency in problem setup and interpretation of simulation results is of utmost importance. As modeling and computing comes closer together, efficient computational methods need to be applied to new sets of equations. The problems to be addressed by simulation methods become more and more complicated, ranging over different scales, interacting on different dimensions and combining different physics. Such problems need to be implemented in a short period of time, solved on complicated domains and visualized with respect to the demand of the user. %Only a modular abstract simulation environment will fulfill these requirements and allow to setup, solve and visualize real-world problems appropriately. In this work, the concepts and the design of the C++ finite element toolbox AMDiS (adaptive multidimensional simulations) are described. It is shown, how abstract data structures and modern software concepts can help to design user-friendly finite element software, which provides large flexibility in problem definition while on the other hand efficiently solves these problems. Also systems of coupled problems can be solved in an intuitive way. In order to demonstrate its possibilities, AMDiS has been applied to several non-standard problems. The most time-consuming part in most simulations is the solution of linear systems of equations. Multi-level methods use discretization hierarchies to solve these systems in a very efficient way. In AMDiS, such multi-level techniques are implemented in the context of adaptive finite elements. Several numerical results are given which compare this multigrid solver with classical iterative methods. Besides the development of more efficient algorithms also the growing hardware capabilities lead to an improvement of simulation possibilities. Modern computing clusters contain more and more processors and also personal computers today are often equipped with multi-core processors. In this work, a new parallelization approach has been developed which allows the parallelization of sequential code in a very easy way and reduces the communication overhead compared to classical parallelization concepts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:23684 |
| Date | 21 February 2008 |
| Creators | Vey, Simon |
| Contributors | Voigt, Axel, Nagel, Wolfgang, Lowengrub, John |
| Publisher | Technische Universität Dresden |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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