Dear NGSolve community,
currently I am working on setting up a simulation for a phase field equation coupled with
a Stokes equation. To resolve the diffuse interfacial layer, I want to use the mesh refinement
technology already implemented in NGSolve, which works very well in a static situation.
However, I would like to account for the movement of the interface in time.
I see two options at the moment:
First, I could use a moving mesh approach based on the fluid velocity,
but this would neglect the deformation of the interface due to other effects (the Ginzburg-Landau
energy for example).
Second, I could refine the mesh depending on the gradient of the phase field therefore also
accounting for “non-fluidic” deformations in the mesh. Going with the second approach, I
find myself producing a lot additional nodes which I don’t need anymore when the interface has moved on.
I could not find a possibility to remove elements from the mesh once added, so at the
moment I would just rebuild the whole mesh after certain time steps.
Is there maybe a possibility to selectively join some refined elements to a coarse one again?
Many thanks in advance!
With kind regards,
Philipp