CHARMS without the Hollywood sort of magic

Petr Krysl, Assistant Professor of Computational Mechanics of Solids and Structures, University of California, San Diego

A general approach to the refinement of discrete approximations, such as those used in the finite element or subdivision element method, is presented. The foundation is provided by the well-known refinement equation. The resulting formulation is unusual, but extremely simple, which leads to some pleasant surprises when implementations of adaptive computations in higher dimensions (two, three, ...) previously considered tedious and tricky now prove to be a matter of a couple of hours of programming.