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Strongly coupled immersed boundary (IB) methods solve the nonlinear fluid and structural equations of motion simultaneously for strongly enforcing the no-slip constraint on the body. Handling this constraint requires solving several large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-12 Nirmal Jayaprasad Nair , Andres Goza

An immersed-boundary (IB) method is proposed and applied in the gas-kinetic BGK scheme to simulate incompressible/compressible viscous flow with stationary/moving boundary. In present method the ghost-cell technique is adopted to fulfill…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Ruifeng Yuan , Chengwen Zhong

The immersed boundary (IB) method has been used as a means to simulate fluid-membrane interactions in a wide variety of biological and engineering applications. Although the numerical convergence of the method has been empirically verified,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexandre X. Milewski , Charles S. Peskin

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

Understanding the flow of deformable particles such as liquid drops, synthetic capsules and vesicles, and biological cells confined in a small channel is essential to a wide range of potential chemical and biomedical engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 J. M. Lyu , Paul G. Chen , G. Boedec , M. Leonetti , M. Jaeger

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

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

We present a strongly-coupled immersed-boundary method for flow-structure interaction problems involving thin deforming bodies. The method is stable for arbitrary choices of solid-to-fluid mass ratios and for large body motions. As with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-05 Andres Goza , Tim Colonius

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

We present a novel isogeometric method, namely the Immersed Boundary-Conformal Method (IBCM), that features a layer of discretization conformal to the boundary while employing a simple background mesh for the remaining domain. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Xiaodong Wei , Benjamin Marussig , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

The anchoring biofilm layer is expected to exhibit a different response to environmental stresses than for portions in the bulk, due to the protection from other strata and the proximity to the attachment surface. The effect of hydrodynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Mirpouyan Zarabadi , François Paquet-Mercier , Steve J. Charette , Jesse Greener

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) solver for numerically solving incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. Particular emphasis is given to internal flows with complex geometries (blood flow in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 G. C. Bourantas , D. L. Lampropoulos , B. F. Zwick , V. C. Loukopoulos , A. Wittek , K. Miller

It has long been recognized that aortic root elasticity helps to ensure efficient aortic valve closure, but our understanding of the functional importance of the elasticity and geometry of the aortic root continues to evolve as increasingly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Vittoria Flamini , Abe DeAnda , Boyce E. Griffith

We extend the recently introduced divergence-conforming immersed boundary (DCIB) method [1] to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving closed co-dimension one solids. We focus on capsules and vesicles, whose discretization is…

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

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies have been increasingly used for blood flow simulations in intracranial aneurysms (ICAs). However, despite the continuous progress of body-fitted CFD solvers, generating a high quality mesh is still…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-28 D. S. Lampropoulos , G. C. Bourantas , B. F. Zwick , G. C. Kagadis , A. Wittek , K. Miller , V. C. Loukopoulos

This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

In this paper we develop a methodology for the mesoscale simulation of strong electrolytes. The methodology is an extension of the Fluctuating Immersed Boundary (FIB) approach that treats a solute as discrete Lagrangian particles that…

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) method for internal flow problems with complex geometries (e.g., blood flow in the vascular system). In this study, we use a voxelized flow domain (discretized…

It is well known that the number of particles should be scaled up to enable industrial scale simulation. The calculations are more computationally intensive when the motion of the surrounding fluid is considered. Besides the advances in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Hao Zhang , F. Xavier Trias , Assensi Oliva , Dongmin Yang , Yuanqiang Tan , Shi Shu , Yong Sheng