  The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation
code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses
mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron
density. Our purpose is to examine the performance of a new Parallel Adaptive
Mesh Refinement (PAMR) procedure introduced on the ADAPT platform, which
resolves of a relatively complicated system coupling the flow partial
differential equations to the Poisson's equation. The implementation deals with
the MUMPS parallel multi-frontal direct solver and mesh partitioning methods
using METIS to improve the performance of the framework. The standard MPI is
used to establish communication between processors. Performance analysis of the
PAMR procedure shows the efficiency and the potential of the method for the
propagation equations of ionization waves.
