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We use conformal maps to study a free boundary problem for a two-fluid electromechanical system, where the interface between the fluids is determined by the combined effects of electrostatic forces, gravity and surface tension. The free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Stuart Kent , Shankar C. Venkataramani

Elasticity theory is an important component of continuum mechanics and has had widely spread applications in science and engineering. Material interfaces are ubiquity in nature and man-made devices, and often give rise to discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Bao Wang , Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

This paper describes a novel numerical model aiming at solving moving-boundary problems such as free-surface flows or fluid-structure interaction. This model uses a moving-grid technique to solve the Navier--Stokes equations expressed in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Nicolas Bodard , Roland Bouffanais , Michel O. Deville

We present a novel framework inspired by the Immersed Boundary Method for predicting the fluid-structure interaction of complex structures immersed in flows with moderate to high Reynolds numbers. The main novelties of the proposed…

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

We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes flow. The spatio-temporal discretization of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-02 B. Kallemov , A. Pal Singh Bhalla , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

We present accurate and mathematically consistent formulations of a diffuse-interface model for two-phase flow problems involving rapid evaporation. The model addresses challenges including discontinuities in the density field by several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Magdalena Schreter-Fleischhacker , Peter Munch , Nils Much , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier

We consider a mathematical model for the interactions of an elastic body fully immersed in a viscous, incompressible fluid. The corresponding composite PDE system comprises a linearized Navier-Stokes system and a dynamic system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-23 Francesca Bucci , Irena Lasiecka

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features by aligning elements of the computational mesh with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Charles J. Naudet , Matthew J. Zahr

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

The presence of surfactants alters the dynamics of viscous drops immersed in an ambient viscous fluid. This is specifically true at small scales, such as in applications of droplet based microfluidics, where the interface dynamics become of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Chiara Sorgentone , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Immersed methods discretize boundary conditions for complex geometries on background Cartesian grids. This makes such methods especially suitable for two-way coupled flow-body problems, where the body mechanics are partially driven by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinjie Ji , James Gabbard , Wim M. van Rees

This paper proposes a novel discretization workflow for contact problems in which the discretization of the contact interface is decoupled from that of the bulk domain. This separation enables independently tailored meshes for the contact…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Eugenia Gabriela Loera Villeda , Ivo Steinbrecher , Alexander Popp

A fully coupled implicit finite-volume algorithm for incompressible viscoelastic interfacial flows is proposed, whereby the viscoelasticity of the flow is described by an upper-convected Maxwell constitutive model, including limited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ayman Mazloum , Gabriele Gennari , Fabian Denner , Berend van Wachem

Isogeometric analysis was proposed to bridge the gap between computer-aided design and numerical discretization. However, standard multi-patch isogeometric analysis mandates conformal discretizations across patch interfaces, posing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yusuf T. Elbadry , Giuliano Guarino , Pablo Antolín , Oliver Weeger

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

We present a collision model for phase-resolved Direct Numerical Simulations of sediment transport that couple the fluid and particles by the Immersed Boundary Method. Typically, a contact model for these types of simulations comprises a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-18 Edward Biegert , Bernhard Vowinckel , Eckart Meiburg

A new method for interface tracking is presented. The interface representation, based on domain decomposition, provides the interface location explicitly, yet is Eulerian. This allows for well established finite difference methods on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-20 Dag Lindbo , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Reliable tracking of moving boundaries is important for the simulation of compressible fluid flows and there are a lot of contributions in literature. We recognize from the classical piston problem, a typical moving boundary problem in gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Zhifang Du , Jiequan Li