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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 present a fluctuating boundary integral method (FBIM) for overdamped Brownian Dynamics (BD) of two-dimensional periodic suspensions of rigid particles of complex shape immersed in a Stokes fluid. We develop a novel approach for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Yuanxun Bao , Manas Rachh , Eric Keaveny , Leslie Greengard , Aleksandar Donev

The paper introduces a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations posed on a closed surface $\Gamma\subset\R^3$. The method needs a shape regular tetrahedra mesh in $\mathbb{R}^3$ to discretize equations on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

We present a computational framework for modeling large-scale particle-laden flows in complex domains with the goal of enabling simulations in medical-image derived patient specific geometries. The framework is based on a volume-filtered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Abhilash Reddy Malipeddi , C. Alberto Figueroa , Jesse Capecelatro

A novel finite element formulation for gradient-regularized damage models is presented which allows for the robust, efficient, and mesh-independent simulation of damage phenomena in engineering and biological materials. The paper presents a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Johannes Riesselmann , Daniel Balzani

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

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

A hydrogeological model for the spread of pollution in an aquifer is considered. The model consists in a convection-diffusion-reaction equation involving the dispersion tensor which depends nonlinearly of the fluid velocity. We introduce an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Éloïse Comte

During design optimization, a smooth description of the geometry is important, especially for problems that are sensitive to the way interfaces are resolved, e.g., wave propagation or fluid-structure interaction. A levelset description of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Sanne J. van den Boom , Jian Zhang , Fred van Keulen , Alejandro M. Aragón

We consider a distributed Lagrange multiplier formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. This is an unfitted method, which does not require the construction of meshes conforming to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

In this paper, we propose a new formulation and a suitable finite element method for the steady coupling of viscous flow in deformable porous media using divergence-conforming filtration fluxes. The proposed method is based on the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Ruben Caraballo , Chansophea Wathanak In , Alberto F. Martín , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

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

We develop a family of expanded mixed Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEMs) and their hybridizations for second-order elliptic equations. This formulation expands the standard mixed Multiscale Finite Element formulation in the sense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Lijian Jiang , Dylan Copeland , J. David Moulton

This paper presents a new finite element (FE) formulation for liquid shells that is based on an explicit, 3D surface discretization using $C^1$-continuous finite elements constructed from NURBS interpolation. Both displacement-based and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Roger A. Sauer , Thang X. Duong , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , David J. Steigmann

The objective of this work is the development of a novel finite element formulation describing the contact interaction of slender beams in complex 3D configurations involving arbitrary beam-to-beam orientations. It is shown in a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Christoph Meier , Alexander Popp , Wolfgang A. Wall

The immersed isogeometric Boundary Element Method is presented and applied to the simulation of underground excavations. Nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBS) are used for the accurate definition of complex geometries with few parameters.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Gernot Beer , Christian Duenser

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

Reservoir simulators utilize numerical techniques to solve the governing equations of fluid flow in porous media and they are essential tool for oil and gas fields development. In practical reservoir simulation, the finite difference method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-14 Taofik H. Nassan , Mohd Amro

The finite element method (FEM) is a cornerstone numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Here, we present $\textbf{Qu-FEM}$, a fault-tolerant era quantum algorithm for the finite element method. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ahmad M. Alkadri , Tyler D. Kharazi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

The paper develops a hybrid method for solving a system of advection--diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to advection--diffusion equations on an embedded surface. A monotone nonlinear finite volume method for equations posed in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Yuri V. Vassilevski