We investigate the applicability of curvilinear grids in the context of astrophysical simulations and WENO schemes. With the non–smooth mapping functions from Calhoun et al. [1], we can tackle many astrophysical problems which were out of scope with the standard grids in numerical astrophysics. We describe the difficulties occurring when implementing curvilinear coordinates into our WENO code, ...

We prove that the set of orthogonal separable coordinates on an arbitrary (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold carries a natural structure of a projective variety, equipped with an action of the isometry group. This leads us to propose a new, algebraic geometric approach to the classification of orthogonal separable coordinates by studying the structure of this variety. We give an example where this ap...

General Curvilinear Ocean Model (GCOM) is a coastal ocean model curvilinear in 3 dimensions, developed by Carlos Torres et al. The model uses a direct numerical simulation (DNS) approach to solve the primitive Navier-Stokes equations and uses boundary fitted Curvilinear coordinates; therefore, it is possible to use GCOM in various topographies and meshes. GCOM is currently being coupled with he...

Curvilinear kinetic energy models are developed for variational nuclear motion computations including the inter- and low-frequency intra-molecular degrees of freedom formic acid dimer.

If a macromolecule is described by curvilinear coordinates or rigid constraints are imposed, the equilibrium probability density that must be sampled in Monte Carlo simulations includes the determinants of different mass-metric tensors. In this work, the authors explicitly write the determinant of the mass-metric tensor G and of the reduced mass-metric tensor g, for any molecule, general intern...

A stable and explicit second order accurate finite difference method for the elastic wave equation in curvilinear coordinates is presented. The discretization of the spatial operators in the method is shown to be self-adjoint for free-surface, Dirichlet and periodic boundary conditions. The fully discrete version of the method conserves a discrete energy to machine precision. AMS subject classi...

In this paper we will present a theory for simplicial diffeomorphims, that is, diffeomorphims that preserve the incidence relations of a simplicial complex. Simplicial diffeomorphisms can be regarded as curvilinear barycentric coordinates. Using the combination of piecewise linear functions on complexes with simplicial diffeomorphisms, we also propose a new representation of curves and surfaces...