Cost-effectiveness of fully implicit moving mesh adaptation: A practical investigation in 1D

The cost-effectiveness of moving mesh adaptation is studied in a number of 1D tests. We propose a method that is based on two established modern techniques. First, we use a moving mesh approach based on the classic equidistribution method. Second, we discretize the model equations for grid and physics using a conservative finite volume method and we solve the resulting equations with a preconditioned inexact Newton–Krylov method.Using these state of the art methods, we consider the question of whether a real improvement in performance can be achieved using adaptive grids. We consider rigorous metrics of the accuracy and cost of a numerical solution on uniform and adaptive grids. For a number of classic but challenging problems we demonstrate that indeed adaptive grids can lead to a great improvement in cost-effectiveness.