Packages supporting mesh adaptation in Firedrake¶
Main contribution¶
Whilst a Research Associate at Imperial College London, I worked on advanced discretisation techniques for finite element methods for coastal ocean modelling. In particular, I sought to take the methods that I’d worked on in my PhD thesis and make them available to the Firedrake user community. To this end, I created three tools for implementing different types of mesh adaptation using Firedrake’s domain-specific language:
Animate - anisotropic metric-based mesh adaptation package, which builds on the Mmg-PETSc coupling project.
Movement - library of mesh movement methods.
Goalie - framework for goal-oriented error estimation, supporting goal-oriented mesh adaptation using tools such as Animate and Movement.
Funding information¶
The initial work was done as part of my postdoc at Imperial College London, which was funded by an ARCHER2 eCSE grant from EPCC.
The ongoing software development and maintenance of Animate, Goalie, and Movement also received funding from Huawei Corporation Ltd. as part of collaboration with the Noah’s Ark Lab.
