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Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-20 Timm Krüger , Stefan Frijters , Florian Günther , Badr Kaoui , Jens Harting

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

We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

A weakly conducting liquid droplet immersed in another leaky dielectric liquid can exhibit rich dynamical behaviors under the effect of an applied electric field. Depending on material properties and field strength, the nonlinear coupling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-28 Mohammadhossein Firouznia , Spencer H. Bryngelson , David Saintillan

We present a loosely coupled approach for the solution of fluid-structure interaction problems between a compressible flow and a deformable structure. The method is based on staggered Dirichlet-Neumann partitioning. The interface motion in…

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

When simulating three-dimensional flows interacting with deformable and elastic obstacles, current methods often encounter complexities in the governing equations and challenges in numerical implementation. In this work, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Andreu F. Gallen , Joan Muñoz Biosca , Mario Castro , Aurora Hernández-Machado

Biological cells utilize membranes and liquid-like droplets, known as biomolecular condensates, to structure their interior. The interaction of droplets and membranes, despite being involved in several key biological processes, is so far…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-21 Marcel Mokbel , Dominic Mokbel , Susanne Liese , Christoph A. Weber , Sebastian Aland

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 methodology for simulating three-dimensional flow of incompressible viscoplastic fluids modelled by generalised Newtonian rheological equations. It is implemented in a highly efficient framework for massively parallelisable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-17 Knut Sverdrup , Ann Almgren , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

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

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

We present a collocated-grid framework for Direct Numerical Simulations of polydisperse particles submerged in a viscous fluid. The fluid-particle forces are coupled with the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) while the particle-particle forces…

The complexity of binary droplet collisions increases for the collision of immiscible liquids with the occurrence of triple lines and thin encapsulating films. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is extended with an efficient interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Johanna Potyka , Kathrin Schulte

Flows with deformable interfaces are commonly controlled by applying an external field or modifying the boundaries that interact with the fluid, but realizing such solutions can be demanding or impractical in various scenarios. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-28 Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

This paper presents a numerical method for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction specifically tailored to interactions between Newtonian fluids and a large number of slender viscoelastic Cosserat rods. Because of their high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-13 S. Tschisgale , J. Fröhlich

With the rapid development of studies involving droplet microfluidics, drug delivery, cell detection, and microparticle synthesis, among others, many scientists have invested significant efforts to model the flow of these fluid-filled…

Hydro-mechanical processes in rough fractures are highly non-linear and govern productivity and associated risks in a wide range of reservoir engineering problems. To enable high-resolution simulations of hydro-mechanical processes in…

This paper presents a unified and computationally efficient framework for predicting incompressible, irrotational (potential) flow around multiple immersed bodies in two-dimensional domains, with particular emphasis on quantifying…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Anil Lal S , Mannu Yadav

In our recent work [H. Zhang, F.X. Trias, A. Oliva, D. Yang, Y. Tan, Y. Sheng. PIBM: Particulate immersed boundary method for fluid-particle interaction problems. Powder Technology. 272(2015), 1-13.], a particulate immersed boundary method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Hao Zhang , Haizhuan Yuan , F. Xavier Trias , Aibing Yu , Yuanqiang Tan , Assensi Oliva