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Many biological examples of fluid-structure interaction, including the transit of red blood cells through the narrow slits in the spleen and the intracellular trafficking of vesicles into dendritic spines, involve the near-contact of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Thomas G. Fai , Chris H. Rycroft

We introduce numerical methods for simulating the diffusive motion of rigid bodies of arbitrary shape immersed in a viscous fluid. We parameterize the orientation of the bodies using normalized quaternions, which are numerically robust,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Steven Delong , Florencio Balboa Usabiaga , Aleksandar Donev

The immersed boundary method (IB) is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas Battista , Christopher Strickland , Aaron Barrett , Laura Miller

The immersed boundary method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses a Lagrangian description of the structural deformations, stresses, and forces along with an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Boyce E. Griffith , Xiaoyu Luo

Accurate and efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems remains a central challenge in computational physics. High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer low numerical errors and excellent scalability on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yingjie Xia , Stefano Colombo , David Huergo , Jiaqing Kou , Yuting Dai , Esteban Ferrer

We study the dynamics of elastic interfaces-membranes-immersed in thermally excited fluids. The work contains three components: the development of a numerical method, a purely theoretical approach, and numerical simulation. In developing a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Davide Stelitano , Daniel H. Rothman

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Huangxin Chen , Yuxiang Chen , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

An immersed-boundary method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations is presented. It employs discrete forcing for a sharp discrimination of the solid-fluid interface, and achieves second-order accuracy, demonstrated in examples with…

The present paper introduces stochastic velocity as improvement for moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method. This improvement is to overcome energy loss caused by numerical dissipation in the basic MPS that brings about rapid decay of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-16 Christian Fredy Naa , Seiro Omata , Masaki Kazama

In the present study, a discrete forcing Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed for the numerical simulation of high-speed flow problems including heat exchange. The flow field is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Hamza Riahi , Eric Goncalves , Marcello Meldi

Numerical simulation of moving immersed solid bodies in fluids is now practiced routinely following pioneering work of Peskin and co-workers on immersed boundary method (IBM), Glowinski and co-workers on fictitious domain method (FDM), and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Neelesh A. Patankar

We develop stochastic mixed finite element methods for spatially adaptive simulations of fluid-structure interactions when subject to thermal fluctuations. To account for thermal fluctuations, we introduce a discrete fluctuation-dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Pat Plunkett , Jon Hu , Chris Siefert , Paul J. Atzberger

The multi-direct-forcing immersed boundary method allows for a small velocity error of the no-slip condition in moving-particle problems but suffers from numerical instability if simulation parameters are not carefully chosen. This study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Kosuke Suzuki , Emmanouil Falagkaris , Timm Krüger , Takaji Inamuro

We present a numerical stability analysis of the immersed boundary(IB) method for a special case which is constructed so that Fourier analysis is applicable. We examine the stability of the immersed boundary method with the discrete Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Mengjian Hua , Charles S. Peskin

In this paper we present a numerical method for hydrodynamic models that arise from time dependent density functional theories of freezing. The models take the form of compressible Navier-Stokes equations whose pressure is determined by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Arvind Baskaran , Zhen Guan , John Lowengrub

It is well known that the number of particles should be scaled up to enable industrial scale simulation. The calculations are more computationally intensive when the motion of the surrounding fluid is considered. Besides the advances in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Hao Zhang , F. Xavier Trias , Assensi Oliva , Dongmin Yang , Yuanqiang Tan , Shi Shu , Yong Sheng

The deformation of an initially spherical capsule, freely suspended in simple shear flow, can be computed analytically in the limit of small deformations [D. Barthes-Biesel, J. M. Rallison, The Time-Dependent Deformation of a Capsule Freely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-10 Timm Krüger , Fathollah Varnik , Dierk Raabe

Stochastic hydrodynamics is a central tool in the study of first order phase transitions at a fundamental level. Combined with sophisticated free energy models, e.g. as developed in classical Density Functional Theory, complex processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 James F. Lutsko

We present an immersed boundary projection method formulated in a body-fixed frame of reference for flow-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving rigid bodies with complex geometries. The body-fixed formulation is aimed at maximizing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-07 Tzu-Yuan Lin , Hsin-Yu Hsieh , Hsieh-Chen Tsai

We present a numerical method to deal efficiently with large numbers of particles in incompressible fluids. The interactions between particles and fluid are taken into account by a physically motivated ansatz based on locally defined drag…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 W. Kalthoff , S. Schwarzer , G. H. Ristow , H. J. Herrmann