Publications

AMReX in the literature

AMReX powers research across scientific domains. Below you will find the core AMReX papers to cite in your own work, as well as a growing collection of science highlights from the AMReX community.

Core papers

Which paper to cite

The first two papers below are the default AMReX citations. If you use pyAMReX or more modern features such as the improved particle container, please also cite the third paper. To cite a specific version of AMReX, use the Zenodo record.

  1. W. Zhang, A. Almgren, V. Beckner, J. Bell, J. Blaschke, C. Chan, M. Day, B. Friesen, K. Gott, D. Graves, M. Katz, A. Myers, T. Nguyen, A. Nonaka, M. Rosso, S. Williams, and M. Zingale. AMReX: a framework for block-structured adaptive mesh refinement. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(37):1370, 2019. DOI: 10.21105/joss.01370
  2. W. Zhang, A. Myers, K. Gott, A. Almgren, and J. Bell. AMReX: Block-structured adaptive mesh refinement for multiphysics applications. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 35(6):508–526, 2021. DOI: 10.1177/10943420211022811arXiv: 2009.12009
  3. A. Myers, W. Zhang, A. Almgren, T. Antoun, J. Bell, A. Huebl, and A. Sinn. AMReX and pyAMReX: Looking Beyond the Exascale Computing Project. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 38(6), 2024. DOI: 10.1177/10943420241271017arXiv: 2403.12179

Science Highlights

Research using AMReX

A selection of publications that use AMReX in their research. If you would like your paper included, open a pull request or issue.

AI and machine learningAstrophysics and cosmologyBiological systemsEarth system modelingFluids and combustionHigh-performance computingMaterials and devicesMultiphase flowNumerical methodsPlasma and accelerators

AI and machine learning

  1. M. Natarajan, Xiaoye S. Li, Weiqun Zhang. AstraAI: LLMs, Retrieval, and AST-Guided Assistance for HPC Codebases. 2026. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.27423
  2. Xiaoyu Zhang, Yuxiao Yi, Lile Wang, Zhi-Qin John Xu, Tianhan Zhang, Yao Zhou. Deep Neural Networks for Modeling Astrophysical Nuclear Reacting Flows. Astrophysical Journal, 2025. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf331arXiv: 2504.14180
  3. Vansh Sharma, Andreas H. Rauch, Venkatramanan Raman. Accelerating CFD Simulations With Super-Resolution Feedback-Informed Adaptive Mesh Refinement. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025. DOI: 10.2514/6.2025-1467
  4. Duoming Fan, D. Willcox, Christopher J. DeGrendele, M. Zingale, A. Nonaka. Neural Networks for Nuclear Reactions in MAESTROeX. Astrophysical Journal, 2022. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac9a4barXiv: 2207.10628
  5. Steven I. Reeves, Dongwoo Lee, A. Reyes, C. Graziani, P. Tzeferacos. An Application of Gaussian Process Modeling for High-order Accurate Adaptive Mesh Refinement Prolongation. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 2020. DOI: 10.2140/camcos.2022.17.1arXiv: 2003.08508

Astrophysics and cosmology

  1. Xiaoyu Zhang, Lile Wang, Yang Gao, Yao Zhou. Direct Numerical Simulations of Oxygen-flame-driven Deflagration-to-detonation Transition in Type Ia Supernovae. Astrophysical Journal, 2025. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae28cearXiv: 2510.26152
  2. C. Palenzuela, Miguel Bezares, S. Liebling, et al.. MHDuet: a high-order general relativistic radiation MHD code for CPU and GPU architectures. Classical and quantum gravity, 2025. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ae255earXiv: 2510.13965
  3. M. Zingale, Khanak Bhargava, Ryan Brady, Zhi Chen, S. Guichandut, Eric T. Johnson, Max Katz, Alexander Smith Clark. The Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Reacting Flows. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2024. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2997/1/012007arXiv: 2411.12491
  4. S. Guichandut, M. Zingale, Andrew Cumming. Hydrodynamical Simulations of Proton Ingestion Flashes in Type I X-Ray Bursts. Astrophysical Journal, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad81f7arXiv: 2405.08952
  5. B. Boyd, A. Calder, D. Townsley, M. Zingale. 3D Convective Urca Process in a Simmering White Dwarf. Astrophysical Journal, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9bb0arXiv: 2412.07938
  6. M. Zingale, Zhi Chen, Eric T. Johnson, Max Katz, Alexander Smith Clark. Strong Coupling of Hydrodynamics and Reactions in Nuclear Statistical Equilibrium for Modeling Convection in Massive Stars. Astrophysical Journal, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8a66arXiv: 2403.14786
  7. M. Buschmann. Sledgehamr: Simulating Scalar Fields with Adaptive Mesh Refinement. Astrophysical Journal, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9ea2arXiv: 2404.02950
  8. Zhi X. Chen, M. Zingale, K. Eiden. Sensitivity of He Flames in X-Ray Bursts to Nuclear Physics. Astrophysical Journal, 2023. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acec72arXiv: 2306.16320
  9. Lisa Consortium Waveform Working Group, Niaesh Afshordi, Sarp Akccay, et al.. Waveform modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Living Reviews in Relativity, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s41114-025-00056-1arXiv: 2311.01300
  10. M. Zingale, Zhi Chen, Melissa Rasmussen, A. Polin, Max Katz, Alexander Smith Clark, Eric T. Johnson. Sensitivity of Simulations of Double-detonation Type Ia Supernovae to Integration Methodology. Astrophysical Journal, 2023. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3441arXiv: 2309.01802
  11. B. D. Wibking and M. R. Krumholz. Quokka: A code for two-moment AMR radiation hydrodynamics on GPUs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512:1343, 2022. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac439arXiv: 2110.01792
  12. M. Zingale, M. Katz, A. Nonaka, M. Rasmussen. An Improved Method for Coupling Hydrodynamics with Astrophysical Reaction Networks. Astrophysical Journal, 2022. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac8478arXiv: 2206.01285
  13. S. Couch, Jared Carlson, M. Pajkos, Brian O'Shea, A. Dubey, T. Klosterman. Towards performance portability in the Spark astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics solver in the Flash-X simulation framework. Parallel Computing, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2021.102830
  14. A. Harpole, N. Ford, K. Eiden, M. Zingale, D. Willcox, Y. Cavecchi, M. Katz. Dynamics of Laterally Propagating Flames in X-Ray Bursts. II. Realistic Burning and Rotation. Astrophysical Journal, 2021. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abee87arXiv: 2102.00051
  15. M. Buschmann, J. Foster, A. Hook, A. Peterson, D. Willcox, et al.. Dark matter from axion strings with adaptive mesh refinement. Nature Communications, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28669-yarXiv: 2108.05368
  16. M. Zingale, M. Katz, D. Willcox, A. Harpole. Practical Effects of Integrating Temperature with Strang Split Reactions. Research Notes of the AAS, 2021. DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ABF3CBarXiv: 2103.13193
  17. A. Almgren, M. B. Sazo, J. Bell, A. Harpole, M. Katz, Jean M. Sexton, D. Willcox, Weiqun Zhang, M. Zingale. CASTRO: A Massively Parallel Compressible Astrophysics Simulation Code. Journal of Open Source Software, 2020. DOI: 10.21105/joss.02513
  18. M. Katz, A. Almgren, M. B. Sazo, K. Eiden, K. Gott, A. Harpole, Jean M. Sexton, D. Willcox, Weiqun Zhang, M. Zingale. Preparing Nuclear Astrophysics for Exascale. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/SC41405.2020.00095arXiv: 2007.05218
  19. Duoming Fan, Andrew Nonaka, A. Almgren, A. Harpole, M. Zingale. MAESTROeX: A Massively Parallel Low Mach Number Astrophysical Solver. Journal of Open Source Software, 2019. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4f75
  20. A. Harpole, Duoming Fan, M. Katz, A. Nonaka, D. Willcox, M. Zingale. Modelling low Mach number stellar hydrodynamics with MAESTROeX. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1623/1/012015arXiv: 1910.12979
  21. M. Zingale, A. Almgren, M. B. Sazo, John B. Bell, K. Eiden, A. Harpole, M. Katz, Andrew Nonaka, D. Willcox, Weiqun Zhang. The Castro AMR Simulation Code: Current and Future Developments. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1623/1/012021arXiv: 1910.12578
  22. K. Eiden, M. Zingale, A. Harpole, D. Willcox, Y. Cavecchi, M. Katz. Dynamics of Laterally Propagating Flames in X-Ray Bursts. I. Burning Front Structure. Astrophysical Journal, 2019. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab80bcarXiv: 1912.04956
  23. M. Zingale, M. Katz, John B. Bell, M. Minion, Andrew Nonaka, et al.. Improved Coupling of Hydrodynamics and Nuclear Reactions via Spectral Deferred Corrections. Astrophysical Journal, 2019. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4e1darXiv: 1908.03661

Biological systems

  1. B. Palmer, A. Almgren, Connah G. M. Johnson, A. Myers, W. Cannon. BMX: Biological modelling and interface exchange. Scientific Reports, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39150-1

Earth system modeling

  1. Balaji Muralidharan, Alexander Boschitsch, Glen R. Whitehouse. A Mixed Formulation Vorticity-Velocity Formulation using AMReX Framework for Wind Farm Modeling. AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-0861
  2. Soonpil Kang, Ann S. Almgren, M. Natarajan, Aaron Lattanzi, J. Mirocha, et al.. An Embedded Boundary Scheme for Three-Dimensional Flow Over Terrain on a Staggered Mesh. 2026. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.11959
  3. Michael B. Kuhn, Marc T. Henry de Frahan, Prakash Mohan, et al.. AMR‐Wind: A Performance‐Portable, High‐Fidelity Flow Solver for Wind Farm Simulations. Wind Energy, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/we.70010
  4. Tim Dammann, Nirav Dangi, J. van Wingerden, Wei Yu. Benchmark Study on Rotor Performance, Wake Dynamics, and Atmospheric Boundary Layers using NREL SOWFA-6 and AMR-WIND. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2025. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/3016/1/012034
  5. Hannah Klion, Robert D. Hetland, Jean M. Sexton, A. Almgren, I. Grindeanu, K. Hinson, V. Mahadevan. REMORA: Regional Modeling of Oceans Refined Adaptively (built on AMReX). Journal of Open Source Software, 2025. DOI: 10.21105/joss.07958
  6. Aaron Lattanzi, A. Almgren, E. Quon, M. Natarajan, B. Kosović, J. Mirocha, Bruce Perry, David Wiersema, D. Willcox, Xingqiu Yuan, Weiqun Zhang. ERF: Energy Research and Forecasting Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2024. DOI: 10.1029/2024MS004884arXiv: 2412.04395
  7. Daniel S. Abdi, Ann S. Almgren, Francis X. Giraldo, Isidora Jankov. Comparison of adaptive mesh refinement techniques for numerical weather prediction. arXiv.org, 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.16648
  8. A. Almgren, A. Lattanzi, R. Haque, P. Jha, B. Kosovic, J. Mirocha, B. Perry, E. Quon, M. Sanders, D. Wiersema, D. Willcox, X. Yuan, and W. Zhang. ERF: Energy Research and Forecasting. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(87):5202, 2023. DOI: 10.21105/joss.05202

Fluids and combustion

  1. Jumeng Fan, Xiangyu Zhang, Huahua Xiao, Longhua Hu, Luqing Wang, Honghao Ma, Xinming Qin, Yundong Zhang, Chao Wu. Three- versus two-dimensional numerical simulation of distorted tulip flame in stoichiometric hydrogen-air mixture. Combustion and Flame, 2026. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2025.114733
  2. Anthony Carreon, Shuzhi Zhang, Shivank Sharma, Jagmohan Singh, Venkatramanan Raman. GPU Performance Modeling and Assessment of High-Speed Combustion Simulations Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025. DOI: 10.2514/6.2025-1168
  3. Yuqi Wang, Yadong Zeng, R. Deiterding, Jianhan Liang. An efficient GPU-accelerated adaptive mesh refinement framework for high-fidelity compressible reactive flows modeling. Computer Physics Communications, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109870arXiv: 2506.02602
  4. Tin-Hang Un, S. Navarro-Martinez. Stochastic fields with adaptive mesh refinement for high-speed turbulent combustion. Combustion and Flame, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113897
  5. J. Salinas, H. Kolla, Martin Rieth, et al.. In situ multi-tier auto-ignition detection applied to dual-fuel combustion simulations. Combustion and Flame, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2025.114273
  6. Tin-Hang Un, S. Navarro-Martinez. On the performance of the joint velocity-scalar PDF method near walls. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2025.105838
  7. Emma M. Boyd, Eric Sandall, Maycon Meier, J. M. Quinlan, Brandon Runnels. A diffuse boundary method for phase boundaries in viscous compressible flow. Journal of Computational Physics, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2026.114898arXiv: 2502.16053
  8. Ishan Srivastava, Andrew Nonaka, Weiqun Zhang, Alejandro L. Garcia, J. Bell. Molecular fluctuations inhibit intermittency in compressible turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2025. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2025.10796arXiv: 2501.06396
  9. Maycon Meier, E. Schmidt, P. Martinez, J. M. Quinlan, Brandon Runnels. Diffuse interface method for solid composite propellant ignition and regression. Combustion and Flame, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.113120
  10. Shivank Sharma, Ral Bielawski, O. Gibson, Shuzhi Zhang, Vansh Sharma, Andreas H. Rauch, Jagmohan Singh, Sebastian S. Abisleiman, M. Ullman, Shivam Barwey, Venkat Raman. An AMReX-based Compressible Reacting Flow Solver for High-speed Reacting Flows relevant to Hypersonic Propulsion. arXiv preprint, 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.00900
  11. Kaiyan Jin, Xiaodong Cai, Rong Hong, Lin Zhang, Jianhan Liang. Numerical investigation on flow choking induced by local heat release and large-scale flow separation in a supersonic combustor. Combustion and Flame, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113627
  12. Michael A. Meehan, John C. Hewson, P. Hamlington. High resolution numerical simulations of methane pool fires using adaptive mesh refinement. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2024.105768
  13. L. Esclapez, Marc Day, John Bell, et al.. PeleLMeX: an AMR Low Mach Number Reactive Flow Simulation Code without level sub-cycling. Journal of Open Source Software, 2023. DOI: 10.21105/joss.05450
  14. Suryanarayan Ramachandran, Navneeth Srinivasan, T. Taneja, Hongyuan Zhang, Suo Yang. Numerical study of turbulent non-premixed cool flames at high and supercritical pressures: Real gas effects and dual peak structure. Combustion and Flame, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.112626
  15. Suryanarayan Ramachandran, Navneeth Srinivasan, Zhiyan Wang, Arsam Behkish, Suo Yang. A numerical investigation of deflagration propagation and transition to detonation in a microchannel with detailed chemistry: Effects of thermal boundary conditions and vitiation. The Physics of Fluids, 2023. DOI: 10.1063/5.0155645
  16. M. T. Henry de Frahan, Jonathan S. Rood, M. Day, H. Sitaraman, S. Yellapantula, Bruce A. Perry, R. Grout, A. Almgren, Weiqun Zhang, J. Bell, Jacqueline H. Chen. PeleC: An adaptive mesh refinement solver for compressible reacting flows. The international journal of high performance computing applications, 2022. DOI: 10.1177/10943420221121151
  17. Baburaj Kanagarajan, J. M. Quinlan, B. Runnels. A diffuse interface method for solid-phase modeling of regression behavior in solid composite propellants. Combustion and Flame, 2021. DOI: 10.31224/osf.io/etq5j
  18. H. Sitaraman, S. Yellapantula, M. H. D. Frahan, Bruce A. Perry, Jonathan S. Rood, R. Grout, M. Day. Adaptive mesh based combustion simulations of direct fuel injection effects in a supersonic cavity flame-holder. Combustion and Flame, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/J.COMBUSTFLAME.2021.111531
  19. N. Wimer, M. Day, C. Lapointe, Michael A. Meehan, Amanda S. Makowiecki, et al.. Numerical simulations of buoyancy-driven flows using adaptive mesh refinement: structure and dynamics of a large-scale helium plume. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00162-020-00548-6

High-performance computing

  1. Chris Egersdoerfer, P. Carns, Shane Snyder, Robert B. Ross, Dong Dai. STELLAR: Storage Tuning Engine Leveraging LLM Autonomous Reasoning for High Performance Parallel File Systems. International Conference on Software Composition, 2025. DOI: 10.1145/3712285.3759887arXiv: 2602.23220
  2. Dewen Liu, Shuai He, Haoran Cheng, Yadong Zeng. Investigate the efficiency of incompressible flow simulations on CPUs and GPUs with BSAMR. ArXiv, 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.07148
  3. Michael Beebe, Rahulkumar Gayatri, K. Gott, Adam Lavely, Muhammad Haseeb, et al.. A Performance Analysis of GPU-Aware MPI Implementations Over the Slingshot-11 Interconnect. IEEE Conference on High Performance Extreme Computing, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/HPEC62836.2024.10938430
  4. Jakob Luettgau, Shane Snyder, Tyler Reddy, Nikolaus Awtrey, Kevin Harms, J. L. Bez, Rui Wang, Robert Latham, P. Carns. Enabling Agile Analysis of I/O Performance Data with PyDarshan. Proceedings of the SC '23 Workshops of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis, 2023. DOI: 10.1145/3624062.3624207
  5. Junmin Gu, Philip E. Davis, Greg Eisenhauer, William F. Godoy, A. Huebl, et al.. Organizing Large Data Sets for Efficient Analyses on HPC Systems. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2022. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2224/1/012042
  6. Francis Alexander, A. Almgren, John Bell, A. Bhattacharjee, Jacqueline H. Chen, et al.. Exascale applications: skin in the game. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2020. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0056

Materials and devices

  1. A. Nonaka, Yingheng Tang, Julian C. LePelch, Prabhat Kumar, Weiqun Zhang, Jorge A. Muñoz, Christian Fernandez-Soria, C. Díaz, D. Gardner, Z. Yao. MagneX: A High-Performance, GPU-Enabled, Data-Driven Micromagnetics Solver for Spintronics. arXiv.org, 2026. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.12242
  2. B. Runnels, V. Agrawal, Maycon Meier. The Alamo multiphysics solver for phase field simulations with strong-form mechanics and block structured adaptive mesh refinement. Journal of Open Source Software, 2025. DOI: 10.21105/joss.08581
  3. Jiawei Lu, Nandan Gokhale, N. Nikiforakis. An immersed interface Adaptive Mesh Refinement algorithm for Li-ion battery simulations. I. Development of a fast P2D solver. Journal of Applied Physics, 2025. DOI: 10.1063/5.0281614
  4. Jiawei Lu, Nandan Gokhale, N. Nikiforakis. An immersed interface Adaptive Mesh Refinement algorithm for Li-ion battery simulations. II. Multi-dimensional extension and separator modeling. Journal of Applied Physics, 2025. DOI: 10.1063/5.0281626
  5. Tanmay Dutta, Dasari Mohan, Saurav Shenoy, et al.. MicroSim: A high-performance phase-field solver based on CPU and GPU implementations. Computational materials science, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2024.113438
  6. B. Siddani, Weiqun Zhang, Andrew Nonaka, J. Bell, Ishan Srivastava. An adaptive, data-driven multiscale approach for dense granular flows. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.118294arXiv: 2505.13458
  7. Maycon Meier, B. Runnels. Finite kinematics diffuse interface mechanics coupled to solid composite propellant deflagration. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2024.117040
  8. Saurabh S. Sawant, François Léonard, Zhi Yao, Andrew Nonaka. ELEQTRONeX: A GPU-accelerated exascale framework for non-equilibrium quantum transport in nanomaterials. npj Computational Materials, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01604-7arXiv: 2407.14633
  9. R. Jambunathan, Zhi Yao, Richard Lombardini, Aaron Rodriguez, A. Nonaka. Two-fluid physical modeling of superconducting resonators in the ARTEMIS framework. Computer Physics Communications, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108836arXiv: 2305.13419
  10. Prabhat Kumar, A. Nonaka, R. Jambunathan, G. Pahwa, S. Salahuddin, Z. Yao. FerroX : A GPU-accelerated, 3D Phase-Field Simulation Framework for Modeling Ferroelectric Devices. Computer Physics Communications, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108757arXiv: 2210.15668
  11. E. Eren, Brandon Runnels, J. Mason. Comparison of evolving interfaces, triple points, and quadruple points for discrete and diffuse interface methods. Computational materials science, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111632arXiv: 2203.03167
  12. V. Agrawal, B. Runnels. Robust, strong form mechanics on an adaptive structured grid: efficiently solving variable-geometry near-singular problems with diffuse interfaces. Computational Mechanics, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s00466-023-02325-8arXiv: 2212.02362
  13. Tim Wallis, P. T. Barton, N. Nikiforakis. A unified diffuse interface method for the interaction of rigid bodies with elastoplastic solids and multi-phase mixtures. Journal of Applied Physics, 2021. DOI: 10.1063/5.0079970arXiv: 2111.11806
  14. Z. Yao, R. Jambunathan, Yadong Zeng, A. Nonaka. A massively parallel time-domain coupled electrodynamics–micromagnetics solver. The international journal of high performance computing applications, 2021. DOI: 10.1177/10943420211057906arXiv: 2103.12819
  15. V. Agrawal, B. Runnels. Block structured adaptive mesh refinement and strong form elasticity approach to phase field fracture with applications to delamination, crack branching and crack deflection. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2021.114011arXiv: 2102.10168
  16. D. Ladiges, A. Nonaka, K. Klymko, G. C. Moore, J. Bell, et al.. Discrete ion stochastic continuum overdamped solvent algorithm for modeling electrolytes. Physical Review Fluids, 6:044309, 2021. DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVFLUIDS.6.044309arXiv: 2007.03036
  17. B. Runnels, V. Agrawal, Weiqun Zhang, A. Almgren. Massively parallel finite difference elasticity using a block-structured adaptive mesh refinement with a geometric multigrid solver. Journal of Computational Physics, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.110065arXiv: 2001.04789
  18. Tim Wallis, P. T. Barton, N. Nikiforakis. A Diffuse Interface Model of Reactive-fluids and Solid-dynamics. arXiv: Computational Physics, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2021.106578

Multiphase flow

  1. Samarth C. Patel, Tyler Tryon, X. Yee, Brandon Runnels, Matt Quinlan. Diffuse Interface Model with Surface Tension for Modeling Wave–Droplet Interactions in Compressible Two-Phase Flows. AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-2780
  2. Chun Li, Xuzhu Li, Yiliang Wang, Dewen Liu, Shuai He, Bo Huang, Haoran Cheng, Xiaokai Li, Wenzhuo Li, Mingze Tang, Zheng-Yan Zhu, Yadong Zeng. IAMReX: an adaptive framework for the multiphase flow and fluid-particle interaction problems. Journal of Open Source Software, 2025. DOI: 10.21105/joss.08080
  3. Ziyang Huang, William J. White, Eric Johnsen. Consistent and conservative Phase-Field method for compressible two- and N-phase flows with adaptive mesh refinement. Journal of Computational Physics, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114569
  4. Alexander N. Barrett, P. Subbareddy, G. Candler. Development of a low-dissipation diffuse interface method for compressible multiphase flow. AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024. DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-1756
  5. Xuzhu Li, Chun Li, Xiaokai Li, Wenzhuo Li, Mingze Tang, Yadong Zeng, Zheng-Yan Zhu. An open-source, adaptive solver for particle-resolved simulations with both subcycling and non-subcycling methods. The Physics of Fluids, 2024. DOI: 10.1063/5.0236509arXiv: 2408.14140
  6. Nicholas Deak, H. Sitaraman, Yimin Lu, Nepu Saha, Jordan Klinger, et al.. A high-performance discrete-element framework for simulating flow and jamming of moisture bearing biomass feedstocks. Powder Technology, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2024.120548
  7. R. Porcù, Jordan Musser, A. Almgren, J. Bell, W. Fullmer, Deepak Rangarajan. MFIX-Exa: CFD-DEM simulations of thermodynamics and chemical reactions in multiphase flows. Chemical Engineering and Science, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2023.118614
  8. A. Dhruv. Composable Design of Multiphase Fluid Dynamics Solvers in Flash-X. arXiv.org, 2023. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.11740
  9. Yadong Zeng, Han Liu, Q. Gao, A. Almgren, A. Bhalla, Lian Shen. A consistent adaptive level set framework for incompressible two-phase flows with high density ratios and high Reynolds numbers. Journal of Computational Physics, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2023.111971
  10. Yadong Zeng, A. Xuan, Johannes Blaschke, Lian Shen. A parallel cell-centered adaptive level set framework for efficient simulation of two-phase flows with subcycling and non-subcycling. Journal of Computational Physics, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110740
  11. Yadong Zeng, A. Bhalla, L. Shen. A subcycling/non-subcycling time advancement scheme-based DLM immersed boundary method framework for solving single and multiphase fluid–structure interaction problems on dynamically adaptive grids. Computers & Fluids, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2022.105358
  12. Sobhan Hatami, S. Walsh. Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement strategies to investigate immiscible fluid flow in fractures. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.104274
  13. Jordan Musser, A. Almgren, W. Fullmer, et al.. MFIX-Exa: A path toward exascale CFD-DEM simulations. The international journal of high performance computing applications, 2021. DOI: 10.1177/10943420211009293
  14. S. Lao, Aaron Holt, Deepthi Vaidhynathan, H. Sitaraman, C. Hrenya, T. Hauser. Performance comparison of CFD-DEM solver MFiX-Exa, on GPUs and CPUs. arXiv.org, 2021. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2108.08821
  15. Knut Sverdrup, A. Almgren, N. Nikiforakis. An embedded boundary approach for efficient simulations of viscoplastic fluids in three dimensions. The Physics of Fluids, 2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5110654

Numerical methods

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Plasma and accelerators

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