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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

The immersed boundary method is a numerical and mathematical formulation for solving fluid-structure interaction problems. It relies on solving fluid equations on an Eulerian fluid grid and interpolating the resulting velocity back onto…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Ondrej Maxian , Charles S. Peskin

The immersed boundary (IB) method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses Lagrangian variables to describe the structure and Eulerian variables to describe the fluid. Explicit time stepping schemes for the IB method require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Robert D. Guy , Bobby Philip , Boyce E. Griffith

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Brittany J. Leathers

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a mathematical framework for constructing robust numerical methods to study fluid-structure interaction in problems involving an elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The IB formulation uses an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Yuanxun Bao , Aleksandar Donev , Boyce E. Griffith , David M. McQueen , Charles S. Peskin

We present and analyze a series of benchmark tests regarding the application of the immersed boundary (IB) method to viscoelastic flows through and around non-trivial, stationary geometries. The IB method is widely used for the simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-17 Cole Gruninger , Aaron Barrett , Fuhui Fang , M. Gregory Forest , Boyce E. Griffith

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a widely used approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Although explicit versions of the IB method can suffer from severe time step size restrictions, these methods remain popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams , Robert D. Guy , Boyce E. Griffith

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a mathematical and numerical framework for problems of fluid-structure interaction, treating the particular case in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. The IB…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Boyce E. Griffith

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 Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular Cartesian grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Brittany J. Leathers , Robert D. Guy

In this work it is shown how the immersed boundary method of (Peskin2002) for modeling flexible structures immersed in a fluid can be extended to include thermal fluctuations. A stochastic numerical method is proposed which deals with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 P. J. Atzberger , P. R. Kramer , C. S. Peskin

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

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…

Peskin's Immersed Boundary (IB) model and method are among one of the most important modeling tools and numerical methods. The IB method has been known to be first order accurate in the velocity. However, almost no rigorous theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Zhilin Li , Kejia Pan , Juan Ruiz-Álvarez

Fluid-structure systems occur in a range of scientific and engineering applications. The immersed boundary(IB) method is a widely recognized and effective modeling paradigm for simulating fluid-structure interaction(FSI) in such systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Brent A. Craven , Boyce E. Griffith

The direct-forcing immersed boundary method (DF-IBM) algorithm previously developed by the authors is extended by coupling the Navier-Stokes equations with the Newton-Euler equations for rigid body dynamics within the DF-IBM framework. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 E. Farah , A. Ouahsine , P. G. Verdin , B. Kaoui

We present a novel framework to deal with static and moving immersed boundaries (IB). In this strategy, called Volume-Filtering Immersed Boundary (VFIB) method, transport equations are derived by filtering the Navier-Stokes equations and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Himanshu Dave , Marcus Herrmann , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is one of the popular one-fluid mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian methods to simulate motion of droplets. While the treatment of a moving complex boundary is an extremely time consuming and formidable task in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Chia Rui Ong , Hiroaki Miura

A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) coupled with the immersed boundary (IB) method is developed to perform interface-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The present method (IB-DUGKS) preserves the respective advantages of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shi Tao , Haolong Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Lian-Ping Wang

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…

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