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We present a coupling of the Finite Element and the Boundary Element Method in an isogeometric framework to approximate either two-dimensional Laplace interface problems or boundary value problems consisting in two disjoint domains. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Mehdi Elasmi , Christoph Erath , Stefan Kurz

A systematic study is carried out on a fully resolved fluid-particle model which couples the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM) using an immersed moving boundary technique. Similar algorithms have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 G. C. Yang , L. Jing , C. Y. Kwok , Y. D. Sobral

We present a loosely coupled approach for the solution of fluid-structure interaction problems between a compressible flow and a deformable structure. The method is based on staggered Dirichlet-Neumann partitioning. The interface motion in…

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

We introduce a new implementation of the Immersed Boundary method in the finite-volume library OpenFOAM. The implementation is tailored to the simulation of temperature-dependent non-Newtonian polymeric flows in complex moving geometries,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-12 G. Negrini , N. Parolini , M. Verani

A novel method for complex fluid-structure interaction (FSI) involving large structural deformation and motion is proposed. The new approach is based on a hybrid fluid formulation that combines the advantages of purely Eulerian (fixed-grid)…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Benedikt Schott , Christoph Ager , Wolfgang A. Wall

This paper is concerned with mixed finite element method (FEM) for solving the two-dimensional, nonlinear fourth-order active fluid equations. By introducing an auxiliary variable $w=-\Delta u$, the original fourth problem is transformed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Nan Zheng , Xu Guo , Wenlong Pei , Wenju Zhao

In this work, we present a combination of a multigrid approach and the phi-FEM immersed boundary finite element method to reduce its computational cost while preserving its accuracy. To further reduce the numerical cost of the approach, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Raphaël Bulle , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Killian Vuillemot

The immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) has been widely used in the simulation of fluid-solid interaction and particulate flow problems, since proposed in 2004. However, it is usually a non-trivial task to retain the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Shi Tao , Qing He , Baiman Chen , Simin Huang

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a widely-used numerical methodology for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems. The IB method utilizes an Eulerian discretization for the fluid equations of motion while maintaining a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Aaron L. Fogelson , R. M. Kirby

In this paper, we present a new immersed finite element scheme for solving elliptic interface problems on unfitted meshes by combining the skeletal finite element method (FEM) with the standard FEM. The skeletal FEM is used for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Lin Yang , Qilong Zhai

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

Cable subsystems characterized by long, slender, and flexible structural elements are featured in numerous engineering systems. In each of them, interaction between an individual cable and the surrounding fluid is inevitable. Such a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Daniel Z. Huang , Philip Avery , Charbel Farhat

In this paper, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) proposed by Pinelli is implemented for finite volume approximations of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations solutions in the open source toolbox OpenFOAM version 2.2. Solid obstacles are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-15 E. Constant , C. Li , J. Favier , M. Meldi , P. Meliga , E. Serre

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a non-body conforming approach to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) that uses an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and incompressibility of a coupled fluid-structure system and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Jae H. Lee , Boyce E. Griffith

This article presents and analyzes a $p^{th}$-degree immersed finite element (IFE) method for elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jump conditions. In this method, jump conditions are approximated optimally by basic IFE and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Slimane Adjerid , Ivo Babuska , Ruchi Guo , Tao Lin

A constraint penalization method is introduced within the Lattice Boltzmann (LBM) framework to model fluid-structure interactions involving rigid bodies. The proposed approach extends the fictitious domain concept by enforcing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Tristan Millet , Erwan Liberge

This paper introduces a sharp-interface approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction involving flexible bodies described by general nonlinear material models and across a broad range of mass density ratios. This new flexible-body…

In this work we develop a fictitious domain method for the Stokes problem which allows computations in domains whose boundaries do not depend on the mesh. The method is based on the ideas of Xfem and has been first introduced for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Sébastien Court , Michel Fournié , Alexei Lozinski

An immersed interface-lattice Boltzmann method (II-LBM) is developed for modelling fluid-structure systems. The key element of this approach is the determination of the jump conditions that are satisfied by the distribution functions within…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Jianhua Qin , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith