Articles | Volume 9, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3803-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3803-2016
Development and technical paper
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27 Oct 2016
Development and technical paper |  | 27 Oct 2016

A structure-exploiting numbering algorithm for finite elements on extruded meshes, and its performance evaluation in Firedrake

Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea, Andrew T. T. McRae, David A. Ham, Lawrence Mitchell, Florian Rathgeber, Luigi Nardi, Fabio Luporini, and Paul H. J. Kelly

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Unstructured meshes offer flexibility but are perceived as slow. Some applications, including atmosphere or ocean simulations, admit an extruded mesh: the horizontal mesh may be unstructured, but the vertical dimension can be traversed in a structured way. By extending the Firedrake automated simulation framework to this case, we show that an extruded mesh can be traversed as fast as a structured mesh. This paves the way for highly efficient unstructured mesh models of the ocean and atmosphere.
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