The libMesh library provides a framework for the numerical simulation of partial
differential equations using arbitrary unstructured discretizations on serial
and parallel platforms. A major goal of the library is to provide support for
adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) computations in parallel while allowing a
research scientist to focus on the physics they are modeling.

libMesh is based on this publication:
A C++ Library for Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement/Coarsening Simulations,"
Engineering with Computers, vol. 22, no. 3-4, pp. 237-254, 2006,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00366-006-0049-3