-The present book provides an introduction to using space-filling curves
(SFC) as tools in scientific computing. Special focus is laid on the
representation of SFC and on resulting algorithms. For example,
grammar-based techniques are introduced for traversals of Cartesian and
octree-type meshes, and arithmetisation of SFC is explained to compute
SFC mappings and indexings.
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The locality properties of SFC are discussed in detail, together with
their importance for algorithms. Templates for parallelisation and
cache-efficient algorithms are presented to reflect the most important
applications of SFC in scientific computing. Special attention is also
given to the interplay of adaptive mesh refinement and SFC, including
the structured refinement of triangular and tetrahedral grids. For each
topic, a short overview is given on the most important publications and
recent research activities.