Dusty shock flow with unstructured adaptive finite elements and parcels

A two-phase compressible flow solver along with a new Lagrangian parcel-adaptive method enables a more efficient study of particle and droplet flows. This method is used to predict a particle laden shock wave attenuation as a test case. The performance characteristics are compared with an Eulerian-Eulerian implementation, and it is found that the parcel adaptivity results in an order of magnitude savings in computational resources.