# Tagging connected neighborhoods

The goal is to associate a unique (strictly positive) index (“tag”) t to cells which belong to the same “neighborhood”. All cells in a neighborhood have an initial tag value (given by the user) which is non-zero and are separated from cells in other neighborhoods by cells which have an initial (and final) tag value of zero.

We first define the restriction function for tag values. The parent tag is just the minimum of its children’s tags.

``````static void restriction_tag (Point point, scalar t)
{
double min = HUGE;
foreach_child()
if (t[] < min)
min = t[];
t[] = min;
}``````

We also need a few helper functions. The function below implements a binary search of a sorted array. It returns the index in the array so that $a\left[s\right]\le tag.

``````static long lookup_tag (Array * a, double tag)
{
long len = a->len/sizeof(double);
double * p = (double *) a->p;
if (tag == p[0])
return 0;
if (tag == p[len - 1])
return len - 1;

long s = 0, e = len - 1;
while (s < e - 1) {
long m = (s + e)/2;
if (p[m] <= tag)
s = m;
else
e = m;
}
return s;
}

#if _MPI
static int compar_double (const void * p1, const void * p2)
{
const double * a = p1, * b = p2;
return *a > *b;
}
#endif``````

The function just takes the scalar field t which holds the initial and final tag values. It returns the maximum neighborhood tag value (which is also the number of neighborhoods).

``````trace
int tag (scalar t)
{``````

We first set the restriction and prolongation functions (on trees).

``````  t.restriction = restriction_tag;
#if TREE
t.refine = t.prolongation = refine_injection;
#endif``````

As an initial guess, we set all the (leaf) cells which have a non-zero initial tag value to the Z- (or Morton-) index. We thus have a different “neighborhood” for each cell which has a non-zero initial tag, and a single neighborhood (tagged zero) for all the cells which have a zero initial tag.

``````#if _MPI
scalar index[];
z_indexing (index, true);
foreach()
t[] = (t[] != 0)*(index[] + 1);
#else // !_MPI
long i = 1;
foreach_cell()
if (is_leaf(cell)) {
t[] = (t[] != 0)*i++;
continue;
}
#endif // !_MPI
boundary ({t});``````

To gather cells which belong to the same neighborhood, we repeat multigrid iterations until none of the tag values changes.

``````  bool changed;
do {``````

We first do a restriction from the finest to the coarsest level of the multigrid hierarchy, using the `restriction_tag()` function above.

``    restriction ({t});``

We then go from the coarsest to the finest level and update the tag values.

``````    changed = false;
for (int l = 1; l <= grid->maxdepth; l++) {``````

If the parent tag is non-zero, we set the child tag to the value of its parent (i.e. to the minimum tag value of its siblings).

``````      foreach_level(l)
if (coarse(t))
t[] = coarse(t);
boundary_level ({t}, l);``````

For cells which verify the threshold condition (i.e. for which `t[] != 0`), we refine this initial guess by taking the minimum (non-zero) tag value of its closest neighbors. We also track whether this update changes any of the tag values.

``````      foreach_level (l, reduction(max:changed))
if (t[]) {
double min = t[];
foreach_neighbor(1)
if (t[] && t[] < min)
min = t[];``````

On trees, we need to take into account the minimum tag value of neighboring fine cells.

``````#if TREE
foreach_dimension()
for (int i = -1; i <= 2; i += 3)
if (is_refined (neighbor((2*i - 1)/3)))
for (int j = 0; j <= 1; j++)
for (int k = 0; k <= 1; k++)
if (fine(t,i,j,k) && fine(t,i,j,k) < min)
min = fine(t,i,j,k);
#endif // TREE

if (t[] != min) {
changed = true;
t[] = min;
}
}
boundary_level ({t}, l);
}
} while (changed);``````

## Reducing the range of indices

Each neighborhood is now tagged with a unique index. The range of indices is large however (between one and the total number of leaves). The goal of this step is to reduce this range to between one and the number of neighborhoods. To do this, we create an ordered array of unique indices.

``````  Array * a = array_new();
foreach_leaf()
if (t[] > 0) {``````

We first check whether the index is larger than the maximum or smaller than the minimum value in the array. s is the position of the (possibly new) index in the array. A negative value means that the index is already in the array.

``````      double tag = t[], * ap = (double *) a->p;
long s = -1;
if (a->len == 0 || tag > ap[a->len/sizeof(double) - 1])
s = a->len/sizeof(double);
else if (tag < ap[0])
s = 0;
else {``````

We find the range of existing indices [s-1:s] which contains the index. We check whether the index is already in the array.

``````	s = lookup_tag (a, tag) + 1;
if (tag == ap[s - 1] || tag == ap[s])
s = -1;
}
if (s >= 0) {``````

If the index is new, we add it to the array in the correct position (s).

``````	array_append (a, &tag, sizeof(double)), ap = (double *) a->p;
for (int i = a->len/sizeof(double) - 1; i > s; i--)
ap[i] = ap[i-1];
ap[s] = tag;
}
}``````

## Parallel reduction

Each process now has its own local correspondence map between the neighborhood index and its rank in the array a (i.e. its reduced index). In parallel, we now need to build a global correspondence map.

We first get the maximum size over all processes of the local map and increase the size of the local map to this value.

``````#if _MPI
long lmax = a->len;
mpi_all_reduce (lmax, MPI_LONG, MPI_MAX);
a->p = realloc (a->p, lmax);
lmax /= sizeof(double);``````

We then gather all the local maps into a global map and sort it. All local arrays need to be of the same size to be able to use MPI_Allgather(), so we first pad the arrays with -1.

``````  double * q = a->p;
for (int i = a->len/sizeof(double); i < lmax; i++)
q[i] = -1;
double p[lmax*npe()];
MPI_Allgather (a->p, lmax, MPI_DOUBLE, p, lmax, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
qsort (p, lmax*npe(), sizeof(double), compar_double);``````

This sorted global map will (probably) contain duplicated entries (i.e. indices of neighborhoods which span multiple processes). To build the new global map (stored in a), we eliminate these, as well as the negative indices which were used to pad the local arrays.

``````  array_free (a);
a = array_new();
double last = -1;
for (int i = 0; i < lmax*npe(); i++)
if (p[i] != last) {
array_append (a, &p[i], sizeof(double));
last = p[i];
}
#endif``````

Once we have the (global) map, we can replace the neighborhood indices with their index in the global map (+1).

``````  foreach()
if (t[] > 0)
t[] = lookup_tag (a, t[]) + 1;
boundary ({t});``````

We return the maximum index value.

``````  int n = a->len/sizeof(double);
array_free (a);
return n;
}``````

# Removing (small) droplets/bubbles

Using tag(), the function below can identify and remove droplets (or bubbles) defined by VOF tracer f (resp. $1-f$), smaller than a given diameter (minsize) expressed in number of cells.

``````struct RemoveDroplets {
scalar f;         // compulsory
int minsize;      // default 3
double threshold; // default 1e-4
bool bubbles;     // default false
};

void remove_droplets (struct RemoveDroplets p)
{
scalar d[], f = p.f;
double threshold = p.threshold ? p.threshold : 1e-4;
foreach()
d[] = (p.bubbles ? 1. - f[] : f[]) > threshold;
int n = tag (d), size[n];
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
size[i] = 0;
foreach_leaf()
if (d[] > 0)
size[((int) d[]) - 1]++;
#if _MPI
MPI_Allreduce (MPI_IN_PLACE, size, n, MPI_INT, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
#endif
int minsize = pow (p.minsize ? p.minsize : 3, dimension);
foreach()
if (d[] > 0 && size[((int) d[]) - 1] < minsize)
f[] = p.bubbles;
boundary ({f});
}``````