Volume 23, Issue 4 No AccessAutomatic adaptive grid refinement for the Euler equationsMarsha J. Berger and Antony JamesonMarsha J. Berger Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New YorkSearch for more papers by this author and Antony Jameson Princeton University, Princeton, New JerseySearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:17 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/3.8951SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byTowards adjoint-based mesh refinement for Large Eddy Simulation using reduced-order primal solutions: Preliminary 1D Burgers studyComputer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 379Implementation of a hybrid Lagrangian filtered density function–large eddy simulation methodology in a dynamic adaptive mesh refinement environment21 April 2021 | Physics of Fluids, Vol. 33, No. 4What sustained multi-disciplinary research can achieve: The space weather modeling framework13 August 2021 | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, Vol. 11Space-time adaptive ADER discontinuous Galerkin schemes for nonlinear hyperelasticity with material failureJournal of Computational Physics, Vol. 422The characteristic boundary condition in pressure-based methods25 July 2019 | Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, Vol. 76, No. 2Efficient Implementation of ADER Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes for a Scalable Hyperbolic PDE Engine1 September 2018 | Axioms, Vol. 7, No. 3On Robust and Adaptive Finite Volume Methods for Steady Euler Equations27 June 2018A high‐order element based adaptive mesh refinement strategy for three‐dimensional unstructured grid29 June 2017 | International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 85, No. 9Space–time adaptive ADER-DG schemes for dissipative flows: Compressible Navier–Stokes and resistive MHD equationsComputer Physics Communications, Vol. 220Future Directions in Computational Fluid DynamicsFreddie D. 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