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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

We present a stable finite element method for incompressible nonlinear elasticity based on a four-field mixed formulation involving the displacement, displacement gradient, first Piola--Kirchhoff stress and pressure. Unlike existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We study the discretisation of a uniaxial (rank-one) reduction of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymer solutions, in which the conformation tensor is represented as $\sig = \vec b \otimes \vec b$. Building on structural analogies with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Ben S. Ashby , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

The paper considers a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model of a two-phase flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The model allows for a non-linear dependence of fluid density on the phase-field order parameter. Driven by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Yerbol Palzhanov , Alexander Zhiliakov , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

We introduce a new Eulerian simulation framework for liquid animation that leverages both finite element and finite volume methods. In contrast to previous methods where the whole simulation domain is discretized either using the finite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Tatsuya Koike , Shigeo Morishima , Ryoichi Ando

We show that the semi-implicit time discretization approaches previously introduced for multilayer shallow water models for the barotropic case can be also applied to the variable density case with Boussinesq approximation. Furthermore,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Luca Bonaventura , José Garres-Díaz

We describe and evaluate a numerical solution strategy for simulating surface acoustic waves through semiconductor devices with complex geometries. This multi-physics problem is of particular relevance to the design of quantum electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahman , H. P. Langtangen , C. H. W. Barnes

We present in this paper a rigorous theoretical framework to show stability, convergence and accuracy of improved edge-based and face-based smoothed finite element methods (bESFEM and bFS-FEM) for nearly-incompressible elasticity problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Thanh Hai Ong , Claire E. Heaney , Chang-Kye Lee , G. R. Liu , H. Nguyen-Xuan

We present a stochastic phase-field model for multicomponent lipid bilayers that explicitly accounts for the quasi-two-dimensional hydrodynamic environment unique to a thin fluid membrane immersed in aqueous solution. Dynamics over a wide…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-26 Brian A. Camley , Frank L. H. Brown

In this work, we present a computational formulation based on continuum mechanics to study the interaction of fluid membranes embedded with semiflexible filaments. This is motivated by systems in membrane biology, such as cytoskeletal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Basant Lal Sharma , Luigi E. Perotti , Sanjay Dharmavaram

In this work a finite element simulation of the motion of a rigid body in a fluid, with free surface, is described. A completely general referential description (of which both Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions are special cases) of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. J. Childs , B. D. Reddy

Hybrid particle-field methods are computationally efficient approaches for modelling soft matter systems. So far applications of these methodologies have been limited to constant volume conditions. Here, we reformulate particle-field…

A Galerkin finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on a meshed surface is constructed by using two-dimensional elements extended into three dimensions. The membrane finite element model is established using the intrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-16 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Modesar Shakoor , Chung Hae Park

Semi-discrete and fully discrete mixed finite element methods are considered for Maxwell-model-based problems of wave propagation in linear viscoelastic solid. This mixed finite element framework allows the use of a large class of existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Hao Yuan , Xiaoping Xie

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

This paper presents a general and robust method for the fluid-structure interaction of membranes and shells undergoing large displacement and large added-mass effects by coupling an immersed-boundary method with a shell finite-element…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

Bridging the gap between atomistic detail and continuum mechanics is a central challenge in modeling biological membranes, particularly for mesoscopic phenomena spanning large length and time scales. In this work, we introduce a new,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Pietro Sillano , Siewert-Jan Marrink , Timon Idema

This work presents a novel formulation and numerical strategy for the simulation of geometrically nonlinear structures. First, a non-canonical Hamiltonian (Poisson) formulation is introduced by including the dynamics of the stress tensor.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Andrea Brugnoli , Denis Matignon , Joseph Morlier