A projection method for locally refined grids (Q1924867)

A numerical method for the solution of the two-dimensional Euler equations for incompressible flow on locally refined grids is presented. The method is a modified second-order Godunov-projection method. Second-order accuracy of the numerical method in time and space is established through numerical experiments. A discussion of the adjointness relation between gradient and divergence operators for a refined grid MAC projection is presented, and a refined grid approximate projection is developed. An efficient multigrid method which exactly solves the projection is developed, and a method for casting certain approximate projections as MAC projections on refined grids is presented.