A Multi-Mesh Finite Element Method for Phase Field Simulations

Report 02-03 ZeTeM Bremen, to appear in Proceedings of Workshop Computational Physics of Transport and Interface Dynamics

Abstract:
In phase field models, different components of the solution (temperature and phase variable) exhibit a strongly different local behaviour. An optimal discretization should use a mesh for each component. We present a general framework for the adaptive solution of coupled systems and its application to phase field simulations.

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