A parallel approach to the variational transfer of discrete fields between arbitrarily distributed unstructured finite element meshes

R. Krause and P. Zulian, A Parallel Approach to the Variational Transfer of Discrete Fields between Arbitrarily Distributed Unstructured Finite Element Meshes, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2016.

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An essential ingredient for the discretization and numerical solution of coupled multi-physics or multi-scale problems are stable and efficient techniques for the transfer of discrete fields between non-matching volume or surface meshes. In this paper, we present a new and completely parallel approach. It allows for the transfer of discrete fields between unstructured volume and surface meshes, which can be arbitrarily distributed among different processors. No a priori information on the relation between the different meshes is required.