CLAWPACK Usage
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Links to applications of CLAWPACK
Bibliography
of papers using CLAWPACK or related wave-propagation methods
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Index of links to applications, techniques, and references
- Adaptive Mesh Refinement
See also Related software
- accuracy on mapped grids:
[CL03]
- and parallelism:
[Bli03]
[Bli]
- Astrophysics
See also cosmology
general relativity
jets
MHD
relativistic flow
- Atmospheric flow
- Murawski and Michalczyk [MM01]
studied air pollutant dynamics.
- Balance laws See source terms
- BEARCLAW See Related software
- Broadwell models
- Christlieb, Rossmanith and Smereka [CRS04]
- Burgers' equation
- Cartesian grid methods (for embedding complex geometry on
uniform grids)
- Hans Forrer developed a Cartesian grid method in his thesis
[For97], see also Forrer and
Jeltsch [FJ98] and Forrer and Berger
[FB98].
- Christiane Helzel and Marsha Berger are developing new approaches to
this problem, see
[BH02],
[BHL02],
- Ted Stern coupled body-fitted grids near the wall with cut-cell
Cartesian grids away from the boundary, as described in his thesis
[Ste96]
- LeVeque and Calhoun developed methods for advection-diffusion
equations in irregular geometries using Cartesian grids, see
[CL00],
[CL01].
Results and animations
- Donna Calhoun developed a method for solving streamfunction-vorticity
formulation of the 2d incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on
Cartesian grids by combining the advection-diffusion solver with an immersed
interface approach. See her thesis
[Cal99]
and the paper
[Calar].
Results and animations
- Chemotaxis
- CHOMBO-CLAW See Related software
- Comparison of methods
- CLAWPACK can be used to easily
compare different methods on the same test
problem. For example, see
Example 15.1 of
[FVMHP]
and
book/chap15/wcblast, where the Roe solver and the HLLE method are
compared on the Woodward-Colella blast wave problem.
- A comparison of many methods (including CLAWPACK) on a variety of 1d
and 2d test problems for the Euler equations has been performed by Liska and
Wendroff
[LW01]
- Cosmology
See also general relativity
- Detonation waves
- See Christiane Helzel's thesis
[Hel00]
and the paper
[HLW00]
- Crossflow instabilities and detonation waves: see Bale and Helzel
[BHar]
- For reactive Navier-Stokes: see [SPP99]
- Diffusion
- Drumlins
- The formation of geological formations known as
drumlins is modeled by Hindmarsh
[Hin98]
- Dusty gas dynamics
See also volcanic flows
- Elasticity and elastodynamics See also plasticity
- Euler equations
- See Chapter 14 of
[FVMHP]
- claw/applications/euler
- A comparison of many methods (including CLAWPACK) on a variety of 1d
and 2d test problems for the Euler equations has been performed by Liska and
Wendroff
[LW01]
- Shock formation has been studied by
Lin and Szeri [LS01]
- Extended thermodynamics
-
Au, Reitebuch, Torrilhon, and Weiss
[ARTW00]
have studied an extended thermodynamics model.
- Gas dynamics See Euler equations
and various specific problems.
- General relativity See also relativistic
flow
cosmology
- Heterogeneous media
-
Chapter 9 of
[FVMHP]
concerns one-dimensional problems in heterogeneous media.
Multidimensional acoustics and elastodynamics are discussed in
Chapter 21 and
Chapter 22.
- For acoustics in heterogeneous media, see also
- Acoustics in layered and random media is discussed in the papers
[FL98],
[FL99].
See also Tiernan Fogarty's master's thesis
[Fog97]
- Solitary waves in layered nonlinear media have recently been
studied by LeVeque and Yong. See
[LeVar],
[LY02],
[LY02].
- Chaoming Zhang coupled CLAWPACK with an immersed interface method
to solve acoustics and elasticity problems in heterogeneous media.
See his thesis
[Zha96]
and the papers
[ZL97],
[LZ95],
[Zha96],
- Incompressible flow
- For an implementation of a second-order projection method in
CLAWPACK, see Long Lee's thesis
[Lee02]
and the paper
[LL02]. This also incorporates
an immersed interface method for membranes immersed in the fluid.
Results and
animations
- Donna Calhoun developed a method for solving streamfunction-vorticity
formulation of the 2d incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on
Cartesian grids by combining the advection-diffusion solver with an immersed
interface approach. See her thesis
[Cal99]
and the paper
[Calar].
Results and
animations
- Isothermal equations
- Jet flow
- Lock exchange flow
- Joern Sesterhenn used clawpack with the addition of viscous terms to
solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with gravity for a
lock exchange flow.
- Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
- A new constrained transport algorithm using CLAWPACK was developed
in James Rossmanith's thesis [Ros02]
- Murawski, Nakariakov, and Pelinovsky
[MNP01]
used CLAWPACK to study fast
magnetoacoustic waves in a randomly structured solor corona.
- Manifolds
- Moving grid methods
- Riccardo Fazio and LeVeque
[FL]
developed a one-dimensional moving grid code using CLAWPACK.
- Sorin Mitran and LeVeque are developing a two-dimensional version.
Some preliminary results are containd in
[LM02]
- Stockie, Mackenzie, and Russell
[SMR01]
also developed a one-dimensional moving grid code, with more
attention to mesh moving strategies for shock capturing via the solution of
an auxiliary PDE governing the motion of grid points.
- MPI
- Oceanography
See also tsunamis
- Jannelli, Fazio and Ambrosi
[JFA03]
studied mucilage dynamics
- Optimal control
- Homescu and Navon [HN03]
studied optimal control of flow with discontinuities.
- Parallelism See also MPI
- Ragnhild Blikberg
[Bli],
[Bli03]
has investigated AMRCLAW with OpenMP.
- Porous media flow
- Plasticity
- See Tiernan Fogarty's thesis
[Fog02]
- Quadrilateral grids
- Quasi-steady problems See source terms
- Random media See also heterogeneous
media
- Relativistic flow See also general relativity
- Derek Bale's thesis
[Bal02]
- Riemann solvers See also Roe solvers
- Riemann solvers are found in most applications directories in the rp
subdirectory.
- The program
testrp1sw.f
can be used to test a Riemann solver. (This is specifically for the shallow
water equations and is located in
applications/shallow/1d/rp, but can be modified to work with other sets
of equations.)
- Roe solvers
- Semiconductor modeling
- Gardner, Gelb, and Hernandez
[GGHar]
compare CLAWPACK to central schemes for a 1d model.
- Shallow water equations
See also tsunamis
- Shallow water MHD
- A new constrained transport algorithm using CLAWPACK was developed
in James Rossmanith's thesis [Ros02]
- Shock-bubble interaction
- Shu-Osher test problem
- Smoluchowski equation
-
Helzel and Otto [HO]
use clawpack to study the Doi model for suspensions of rod-like molecules.
The Smoluchowski equation describes the evolution of the distribution of rod
orientations, and is a drift-diffusion equation on the sphere. The webpage
http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~helzel/smoluchowski/
contains code to supplement their paper.
- Soil dynamics
- Soil liquifaction during earthquakes was studied in John Horne's thesis
[Hor96]
- Nonlinear waves in soil were studied by Fellin
[Fel02]
- Source terms
- Fractional step methods are easily used by setting
method(5)>0 in CLAWPACK.
See the CLAWPACK documentation
- quasisteady Examples of the
quasi-steady method described in
[LeV98]
(using an old version of CLAWPACK).
The f-wave approach appears to be better in general.
- fwave.html Description of the f-wave
approach developed in
[BLMR02]
- Sphere
- Thermoelasticity
- Berezovski, Engelbrecht, and Maugin have studied
thermoelastic wave propagation in a heterogeneous medium; see
[BEM01],
[BM01]
- Traffic flow
- Tsunamis
- LeVeque's
research webpage
has some pointers to simulations, including for the 2004 Indian Ocean event.
- LeVeque and George
[LG04]
compared with a benchmark problem.
- Spatially-varying flux functions
- Variable coefficients See heterogeneous
media
- Viscous equations See diffusion
- Visualization
- Volcanic flows
- LeVeque's
research webpage
has some pointers to simulations.
- Pelanti studied pyroclastic flows and volcanic jets
[Pel05]
[PLar]
- Costa and Macedonio [CM05] studied lava flows.
- Vorticity generation
- 3d
calculation by Jan Olav Langseth of vorticity generated by a cylindrically
expanding shock wave hitting an orthogonal cylinder of low-density gas.
- This calculation was used in [LL00] and some additional figures and
simulations for this paper can be found on the webpage for this
paper
- ZPLCLAW See Related software
