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The immersed boundary-finite element method (IBFE) is an approach to describing the dynamics of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this formulation, there are discontinuities in the pressure and viscous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Charles Puelz , Boyce E. Griffith

In this paper, we propose a novel unfitted finite element method for the simulation of multiple body contact. The computational mesh is generated independently of the geometry of the interacting solids, which can be arbitrarily complex. The…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Susanne Claus , Pierre Kerfriden

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

We consider a Navier-Stokes fluid-plate interaction (FSI) system which describes the evolutions of the fluid contained within a 3D cavity, as it interacts with a deformable elastic membrane on the ``free" upper boundary of the cavity. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Pelin G. Geredeli , Quyuan Lin , Dylan Mcknight , Mohammad Mahabubur Rahman

We address semigroup well-posedness of the fluid-structure interaction of a linearized compressible, viscous fluid and an elastic plate (in the absence of rotational inertia). Unlike existing work in the literature, we linearize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 George Avalos , Pelin G. Geredeli , Justin T. Webster

We present a new approach for the mechanically consistent modelling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions with contact. The fundamental idea consists of combining a relaxed contact formulation with the modelling of seepage through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Erik Burman , Miguel A. Fernández , Stefan Frei , Fannie M. Gerosa

Numerical simulations of flow and transport in porous media usually rely on hybrid-dimensional models, i.e., the fracture is considered as objects of a lower dimension compared to the embedding matrix. Such models are usually combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola , Marco Favino

We present a loosely-coupled partitioned scheme for a benchmark problem in fluid-composite structure interaction. The benchmark problem proposed here consists of an incompressible, viscous fluid interacting with a composite structure that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Martina Bukac , Suncica Canic , Boris Muha

Solving fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems when the densities are similar (large added mass), such as in hemodynamics, is challenging since the stability and convergence of the adopted numerical scheme could be compromised. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Francesca Renzi , Christian Vergara

The conservation laws of continuum mechanic written in an Eulerian frame make no difference between fluids and solids except in the expression of the stress tensors, usually with Newton's hypothesis for the fluids and Helmholtz potentials…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Olivier Pironneau

We consider the numerical approximation of a sharp-interface model for two-phase flow, which is given by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the bulk domain together with the classical interface conditions on the interface. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

With recent advances in variable-length structures for use in soft actuation, energy harvesting, energy dissipation and metamaterials, the mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of physical systems with time-varying domains is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-31 Panagiotis Koutsogiannakis , Theodosios Papathanasiou , Francesco Dal Corso

We study a nonlinear, unsteady, moving boundary, fluid-structure (FSI) problem in which the structure is composed of two layers: a thin layer which is in contact with the fluid, and a thick layer which sits on top of the thin structural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Boris Muha , Suncica Canic

In the previous work, Zhang et al. proposed a multi-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for fluid-structure interactions (FSI) with achieving an optimized computational efficiency meanwhile maintaining good numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Chi Zhang , Yujie Zhu , Xiangyu Hu

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

Accurately depicting multiphysics interactions in interfacial systems requires computational frameworks capable of reconciling geometric adaptability with strict conservation fidelity. However, traditional spatiotemporal discretisation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Suhaib Ardah , Francisco J. Profito , Daniele Dini

Mass-conservative reaction-diffusion systems have recently been proposed as a general framework to describe intracellular pattern formation. These systems have been used to model the conformational switching of proteins as they cycle from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-08 John A. Mackenzie , Christopher F. Rowlatt , Robert H. Insall

In this paper we introduce a numerical scheme for fluid-structure interaction problems in two or three space dimensions: A flexible elastic plate is interacting with a viscous, compressible barotropic fluid. Hence the physical domain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Sebastian Schwarzacher , Bangwei She

The flux-mortar mixed finite element method was recently developed for a general class of domain decomposition saddle point problems on non-matching grids. In this work we develop the method for Darcy flow using the multipoint flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Wietse M. Boon , Dennis Gläser , Rainer Helmig , Ivan Yotov

Simulation of frictional contact and shear failure of fractures in fractured media is of paramount important in computational mechanics. In this work, a preconditioned mixed-finite element (FE) scheme with Lagrange multipliers is proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Luyu Wang , Cornelis Vuik , Hadi Hajibeygi