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We study an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes using the CutFEM method. Our main contribution is the reconstruction of conservative fluxes from the CutFEM solution and their use in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi , Cuiyu He

The Edge-Based Interface Tracking (EBIT) method is a novel Front-Tracking method where the markers are located on grid edges, and their connectivity is implicitly represented by a color vertex field. This localized representation simplifies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 Jieyun Pan , Tian Long , Ruben Scardovelli , Stéphane Popinet , Stéphane Zaleski

In this paper we propose a new diffuse interface model for the numerical simulation of inviscid compressible flows around fixed and moving solid bodies of arbitrary shape. The solids are assumed to be moving rigid bodies, without any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Friedemann Kemm , Elena Gaburro , Ferdinand Thein , Michael Dumbser

Robust, broadly applicable fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithms remain a challenge for computational mechanics. In previous work, we introduced an immersed interface method (IIM) for discrete surfaces and an extension based on an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Qi Sun , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

The performance of interFoam (a widely-used solver within the popular open source CFD package OpenFOAM) in simulating the propagation of a nonlinear (stream function solution) regular wave is investigated in this work, with the aim of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-22 Bjarke Eltard Larsen , David R. Fuhrman , Johan Roenby

We describe the implementation of a second-order accurate volume-of-fluid interface tracking algorithm in the open source finite element code ASPECT, which is designed to model convection in the Earth's mantle. This involves the solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Jonathan M. Robey , Elbridge Gerry Puckett

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Volume of fluid (VOF) methods are extensively used to track fluid interfaces in numerical simulations, and many VOF algorithms require that the interface be reconstructed geometrically. For this purpose, the Piecewise Linear Interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Mohammadmehdi Ataei , Markus Bussmann , Vahid Shaayegan , Franco Costa , Sejin Han , Chul B. Park

We adapt and extend a formulation for soluble surfactant transport in multiphase flows recently presented by Muradoglu & Tryggvason (JCP 274 (2014) 737-757) to the context of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (Shin et al. IJNMF 60…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Seungwon Shin , Jalel Chergui , Damir Juric , Lyes Kahouadji , Omar K. Matar , Richard V. Craster

Volume approximation is an important problem found in many applications of computer graphics, vision, and image processing. The problem is about computing an accurate and compact approximate representation of 3D volumes using some simple…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Feng Sun , Yi-King Choi , Yizhou Yu , Wenping Wang

Many multiphase fluid systems, such as those involving immiscible polymers or liquid-liquid systems with surfactants, have shown a breakdown of the no-slip condition at the material interface. This results in systems where the tangential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-05 Afsoun Rahnama Falavarjani , David Salac

Accurate real-time buoyancy modeling is essential for high-fidelity Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) simulations, yet NVIDIA Isaac Sim lacks a native buoyancy system, requiring external solutions for precise underwater physics. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ad-Deen Mahbub , Md Ragib Shaharear

Triangulated meshes have become ubiquitous discrete-surface representations. In this paper we address the problem of how to maintain the manifold properties of a surface while it undergoes strong deformations that may cause topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Andrei Zaharescu , Edmond Boyer , Radu Horaud

The relationship between the spatiotemporal distribution of oxygen transport and blood flow dynamics, accounting for the motion and deformation of individual red blood cells (RBCs), is of fundamental importance for understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 Naoki Takeishi , Junya Kobayashi , Shigeo Wada , Satoshi Ii

This paper introduces a novel approach to compute the numerical fluxes at the cell boundaries in the finite volume approach. Explicit gradients used in deriving the reconstruction polynomials are replaced by high-order gradients computed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi , Steven H. Frankel , Abhishek Chintagunta

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

The immersed interface method (IIM) for models of fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction imposes jump conditions that capture stress discontinuities generated by forces that are concentrated along immersed boundaries. Most prior work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Michael J. Facci , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

Contaminant transport in porous media is often modeled by solving the Advection Dispersion Equation (ADE) which describes the way the contaminant moves within the bulk fluid as well as the movement of the contaminant due to the bulk…

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-08 H. Abels , H. Garcke , G. Grün

A numerical algorithm for solving mantle convection problems with strongly variable viscosity is presented. Equations for conservation of mass and momentum for highly viscous and incompressible fluids are solved iteratively by a multigrid…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Kameyama , Akira Kageyama , Tetsuya Sato