Adaptive discretizations are important in compressible/incompressible flow problems since it is often necessary to resolve details on multiple levels,allowing large regions of space to be modeled using a reduced number of degrees of freedom (reducing the computational time).There are a wide variety of methods for adaptively discretizing space, but Cartesian grids have often outperformed them even at high resolutions due totheir simple and accurate numerical stencils and their superior parallel performances.Such performance and simplicity are in general obtained applying afinite-difference scheme for the resolution of the problems involved, but this discretization approach does not present, by contrast, an easy adapting path.In a finite-volu...