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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…
We investigate a mechanism of the appearance of kinetic friction in granular materials. We consider a small number of intervening inelastic particles between two rough surfaces as one of the simplest dynamical models to study granular…
In this article we develop a theoretical framework to study the hydrodynamic interactions in the presence of a non-flat and no-slip boundary. We calculate the influence of a small amplitude and sinusoidal deformations of a boundary wall in…
We present a parallel-scalable method for simulating non-dilute suspensions of deformable particles immersed in Stokesian fluid in three dimensions. A critical component in these simulations is robust and accurate collision handling. This…
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We present a multi-scale model to study the attachment of spherical particles with a rigid core, coated with binding ligands and in equilibrium with the surrounding, quiescent fluid medium. This class of fluid-immersed adhesion is…