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The present paper is devoted to implementation of the immersed boundary technique into the Fourier pseudo-spectral solution of the vorticity-velocity formulation of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. The immersed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Fereidoun Sabetghadam , Mehdi Badri , Shervin Sharafatmandjoor , Hosnieh Kor

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 develop numerical methods to simulate the fluid-mechanical erosion of many bodies in two-dimensional Stokes flow. The broad aim is to simulate the erosion of a porous medium (e.g. groundwater flow) with grain-scale resolution. Our fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Bryan D. Quaife , M. Nicholas J. Moore

Simulation of unsteady creeping flows in complex geometries has traditionally required the use of a time-stepping procedure, which is typically costly and unscalable. To reduce the cost and allow for computations at much larger scales, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Chenwei Meng , Anirban Bhattacharjee , Mahdi Esmaily

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

In this article we address flow problems that carry a multiscale character in time. In particular we consider the Navier-Stokes flow in a channel on a fast scale that influences the movement of the boundary which undergoes a deformation on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Stefan Frei , Thomas Richter

We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

We present a spectral element model for general-purpose simulation of non-overturning nonlinear water waves using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE) with a free surface. The numerical implementation of the spectral element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Anders Melander , Wojciech Laskowski , Spencer J. Sherwin , Allan P. Engsig-Karup

We show that the standard boundary integral operators, defined on the unit sphere, for the Stokes equations diagonalize on a specific set of vector spherical harmonics and provide formulas for their spectra. We also derive analytical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Eduardo Corona , Shravan Veerapaneni

This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon , Stéphane Descombes , Thierry Dumont

In this work, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with feedback forcing introduced by Goldstein et al. (1993) and often referred in the literature as the Virtual Boundary Method (VBM), is addressed. The VBM has been extensively applied both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Michele Girfoglio , Giovanni Stabile , Andrea Mola , Gianluigi Rozza

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

In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical solver is developed for suspensions of rigid and soft particles and droplets in viscoelastic and elastoviscoplastic (EVP) fluids. The presented algorithm is designed to allow for the first time…

Simulating non-wetting fluid invasion in volumetric images of porous materials is of broad interest in applications as diverse as electrochemical devices and CO2 sequestration. Among available methods, image-based algorithms offer much…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-07 Jeff T Gostick , Niloofar Misaghian , Ashkan Irannezhad , Benzhong Zhao

A novel smooth immersed boundary method (IBM) based on a direct-forcing formulation is proposed to simulate incompressible dense particle-laden flows. This IBM relies on a regularization of the transfer function between the Eulerian grid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Victor Chéron , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

An iterative solution method for fully nonlinear boundary value problems governing self-similar flows with a free boundary is presented. Specifically, the method is developed for application to water entry problems, which can be studied…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-01-22 Alessandro Iafrati

In this article we address the three-dimensional modeling and simulation of biological ion channels using a continuum-based approach. Our multi-physics formulation self-consistently combines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Riccardo Sacco , Paolo Airoldi , Aurelio G. Mauri , Joseph W. Jerome

We present two accurate and efficient algorithms for solving the incompressible, irrotational Euler equations with a free surface in two dimensions with background flow over a periodic, multiply-connected fluid domain that includes…

Computing the solution of linear systems of equations is invariably the most time consuming task in the numerical solutions of PDEs in many fields of computational science. In this study, we focus on the numerical simulation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Jongmin Seo , Daniele E. Schiavazzi , Alison L. Marsden

Crashing ocean waves, cappuccino froths and microfluidic bubble crystals are examples of foamy flows. Foamy flows are critical in numerous natural and industrial processes and remain notoriously difficult to compute as they involve coupled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos