The Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) develops and applies advanced computational methodologies to solve large-scale scientific and engineering problems arising in the Department of Energy (DOE) mission areas involving energy, environmental, and industrial technology.

The fundamental ideas behind adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) are applicable to a broad range of problems in science and engineering. Researchers developing AMR methodologies at Berkeley Lab and other institutions have developed much of the basic mathematics needed to design adaptive discretizations for the nonlinear systems of partial differential equations that describe many physical systems. CCSE researchers and their collaborators are developing high-resolution adaptive finite difference algorithms for a broad range of applications in fluid mechanics.

Group Leader: John Bell

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