The HEDLA-08 conference was a continuation of a series of biennial conferences first held in Pleasanton, California, in 1996, and focused on progress made during recent years in designing, conducting, and analyzing the results of...

The past two decades have seen an unprecedented rise of advanced numerical computations in science. At the forefront of these advances are adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods for solving multi-scale problems that arise in a wide range...