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The Immersed Boundary method is a simple, efficient, and robust numerical scheme for solving PDE in general domains, yet it only achieves first-order spatial accuracy near embedded boundaries. In this paper, we introduce a new high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 David B. Stein , Robert D. Guy , Becca Thomases

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

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

Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

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

Fluid-structure interactions are central to many bio-molecular processes, and they impose a great challenge for computational and modeling methods. In this paper, we consider the immersed boundary method (IBM) for biofluid systems, and to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Yushuang Luo , Xiantao Li , Wenrui Hao

This work presents a robust and efficient sharp interface immersed boundary (IBM) framework, which is applicable for all-speed flow regimes and is capable of handling arbitrarily complex bodies (stationary or moving). The work deploys an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Pradeep Kumar Seshadri , Ashoke De

An immersed interface-lattice Boltzmann method (II-LBM) is developed for modelling fluid-structure systems. The key element of this approach is the determination of the jump conditions that are satisfied by the distribution functions within…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Jianhua Qin , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

We present numerical simulations of active fluid droplets immersed in an external fluid in 2-dimensions { using} an Immersed Boundary method to simulate the fluid droplet interface as a Lagrangian mesh. We present results from two example…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Carl A. Whitfield , Rhoda J. Hawkins

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

The hybrid wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) and immersed boundary (IB) method offers significant flexibility for simulating high Reynolds number flows involving complex boundaries. However, the approximate boundary conditions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-30 Zhideng Zhou , Fengshun Zhang , Xiaolei Yang

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

A simulation framework based on the level-set and the immersed boundary methods (LS-IBM) has been developed for reactive transport problems in porous media involving a moving solid-fluid interface. The interface movement due to surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-13 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh , Yinuo Yao , Ilenia Battiato

We present an improved method for computing incompressible viscous flow around suspended rigid particles using a fixed and uniform computational grid. The main idea is to incorporate Peskin's regularized delta function approach [Acta…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-24 Markus Uhlmann

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

A formulation of the immersed boundary method for incompressible flow over bodies with surface slip described by the Navier boundary condition is presented. In the present method, the wall slip velocity and the boundary force are determined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-19 Takehiro Fujii , Takeshi Omori

We present a novel immersed boundary method that implements acoustic perturbation theory to model an acoustically levitated droplet. Instead of resolving sound waves numerically, our hybrid method solves acoustic scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-22 Jacqueline B. Sustiel , David G. Grier

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

Immersed boundary methods are extensively used for simulations of dynamic solid objects interacting with fluids due to their computational efficiency and modelling flexibility compared to body-fitted grid methods. However, thin geometries,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

Immersed boundary methods for computing confined fluid and plasma flows in complex geometries are reviewed. The mathematical principle of the volume penalization technique is described and simple examples for imposing Dirichlet and Neumann…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Kai Schneider