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This paper presents an implicit method for the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) to speed up the simulations of the steady flows in all flow regimes. The DUGKS is a multi-scale scheme finite volume method (FVM) for all flow…

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We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

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…

We introduce a finite-volume numerical scheme for solving stochastic gradient-flow equations. Such equations are of crucial importance within the framework of fluctuating hydrodynamics and dynamic density functional theory. Our proposed…

This paper presents a novel volume of fluid ghost-cell immersed boundary (IB) method for two-phase free surface flow interacting with structures. To circumvent the disturbance occurring around the intersection area of the IB and free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-16 Fan Chen , Jinghua Wang , Huan-Feng Duan

We present a modification of a recently developed volume of fluid method for multiphase problems, so that it can be used in conjunction with a fractional step-method and fast Poisson solver, and validate it with standard benchmark problems.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-06 Marco Edoardo Rosti , Francesco De Vita , Luca Brandt

In contrast to the commonly used lattice Boltzmann method, off-lattice Boltzmann methods decouple the velocity discretization from the underlying spatial grid, thus allowing for more efficient geometric representations of complex…

We analyse a coupled 3D-2D model with a free fluid governed by Stokes flow in the bulk and a poroelastic plate described by the Biot-Kirchhoff equations on the surface. Assuming the form of a double perturbed saddle-point problem, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Franco Dassi , Rekha Khot , Andres E. Rubiano , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

A hybrid method is developed to simulate two-phase flows with soluble surfactants. In this method, the interface and bulk surfactant concentration equations of diffuse-interface form, which include source terms to consider surfactant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yan Ba , Haihu Liu , Wenqiang Li , Wenjing Yang

Modeling flow in geosystems with natural fault is a challenging problem due to low permeability of fault compared to its surrounding porous media. One way to predict the behavior of the flow while taking the effects of fault into account is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Youguang Chen , George Biros

We model incompressible flows with an adaptive stabilized finite element method Stokes flows, which solves a discretely stable saddle-point problem to approximate the velocity-pressure pair. Additionally, this saddle-point problem delivers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Felix Kyburg , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

Since early publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the finite volume method has been shown suitable for solid mechanics analyses. At present, there are several flavours of the method, which can be classified in a variety of ways,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Philip Cardiff , Ismet Demirdžić

Over the last decade, finite volume discretizations for flow in porous media have been extended to handle situations where fractures dominate the flow. These discretizations have successfully been combined with the discrete fracture-matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Ivar Stefansson , Inga Berre , Eirik Keilegavlen

In this letter, by writing the volume as a function of coordinates of atoms, we present a new constant-pressure molecular dynamics method with parameters free. This method is specially appropriate for the finite system in which the periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Y. Sun , X. G. Gong

Quadrature-based moment methods (QBMM) provide tractable closures for multiscale kinetic equations, with diverse applications across aerosols, sprays, and particulate flows, etc. However, for the derived hyperbolic moment-closure systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Chuan Fan , Qian Huang , Kailiang Wu

We analyse and improve the volume-penalty method, a simple and versatile way to model objects in fluid flows. The volume-penalty method is a kind of fictitious-domain method that approximates no-slip boundary conditions with rapid linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Eric W. Hester , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Keaton J. Burns

Dynamics of a single vesicle under shear flow between two parallel plates is studied using two-dimensional lattice-Boltzmann simulations. We first present how we adapted the lattice-Boltzmann method to simulate vesicle dynamics, using an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-16 Badr Kaoui , Jens Harting , Chaouqi Misbah

The critical buckling characteristics of hydrostatically pressurized complete spherical shells filled with an elastic medium are demonstrated. A model based on small deflection thin shell theory, the equations of which are solved in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-14 Motohiro Sato , M. Ahmer Wadee , Kohtaroh Iiboshi , Takafumi Sekizawa , Hiroyuki Shima

A residual-based lubrication method is used in this paper to find the flow rate and pressure field in converging-diverging rigid tubes for the flow of time-independent category of non-Newtonian fluids. Five converging-diverging prototype…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-26 Taha Sochi

The paper develops a hybrid method for solving a system of advection--diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to advection--diffusion equations on an embedded surface. A monotone nonlinear finite volume method for equations posed in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Yuri V. Vassilevski