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The immersed boundary-finite element method (IBFE) is an approach to describing the dynamics of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this formulation, there are discontinuities in the pressure and viscous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Charles Puelz , Boyce E. Griffith

We present a distributed Lagrange multiplier formulation of the Finite Element Immersed Boundary Method to couple incompressible fluids with compressible solids. This is a generalization of the formulation presented in Heltai and Costanzo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi , Luca Heltai

We introduce a new formulation for the finite element immersed boundary method which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier. We prove that a full discretization of our model, based on a semi-implicit time advancing scheme, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Daniele Boffi , Nicola Cavallini , Lucia Gastaldi

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

A novel numerical formulation for solving fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems is proposed where the fluid field is spatially discretized using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the structural field using the finite element…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sebastian L. Fuchs , Christoph Meier , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christian J. Cyron

We present a robust immersed boundary (IB) method for high density ratio multiphase flows that is capable of modeling complex wave-structure interaction (WSI) problems arising in marine and coastal engineering applications. The IB/WSI…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

In our recent work [H. Zhang, F.X. Trias, A. Oliva, D. Yang, Y. Tan, Y. Sheng. PIBM: Particulate immersed boundary method for fluid-particle interaction problems. Powder Technology. 272(2015), 1-13.], a particulate immersed boundary method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Hao Zhang , Haizhuan Yuan , F. Xavier Trias , Aibing Yu , Yuanqiang Tan , Assensi Oliva

We present the implementation of a solution scheme for fluid-structure interaction problems via the finite element software library deal.II. The solution scheme is an immersed finite element method in which two independent discretizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-14 Luca Heltai , Saswati Roy , Francesco Costanzo

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

Robust, broadly applicable fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithms remain a challenge for computational mechanics. In previous work, we introduced an immersed interface method (IIM) for discrete surfaces and an extension based on an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Qi Sun , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

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

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

Many problems in electrical engineering or fluid mechanics can be modeled by parabolic-elliptic interface problems, where the domain for the exterior elliptic problem might be unbounded. A possibility to solve this class of problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

This paper presents an immersed boundary (IB) method for fluid--structure--acoustics interactions involving large deformations and complex geometries. In this method, the fluid dynamics is solved by a finite difference method where the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Li Wang , Fang-Bao Tian , Joseph C. S. Lai

Solving complex fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems, which are described by nonlinear partial differential equations, is crucial in various scientific and engineering applications. Traditional computational fluid dynamics based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Xiantao Fan , Jian-Xun Wang

The immersed interface method (IIM) for fluid-structure interaction imposes discontinuities in the fluid stress along immersed boundaries that are generated by forces concentrated along those boundaries. For a viscous incompressible fluid,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

We present a consistent approach that allows to solve challenging general nonlinear fluid-structure-contact interaction (FSCI) problems. The underlying continuous formulation includes both "no-slip" fluid-structure interaction as well as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Christoph Ager , Alexander Seitz , Wolfgang A. Wall

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a general mathematical framework for studying problems involving fluid-structure interactions in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. In the IB formulation, the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Yuanxun Bao , Alexander D. Kaiser , Jason Kaye , Charles S. Peskin

The immersed boundary method is a mathematical framework for modeling fluid-structure interaction. This formulation describes the momentum, viscosity, and incompressibility of the fluid-structure system in Eulerian form, and it uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Ben Vadala-Roth , Shashank Acharya , Neelesh A Patankar , Simone Rossi , Boyce E Griffith