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We present an implementation of a fully variational formulation of an immersed method for fluid-structure interaction problems based on the finite element method. While typical implementation of immersed methods are characterized by the use…
We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…
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…
This paper introduces a sharp interface method to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) involving rigid bodies immersed in viscous incompressible fluids. The capabilities of this methodology are demonstrated for a range of benchmark…
The Intrinsic Surface Finite Element Method (ISFEM) was recently proposed to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on surfaces. ISFEM proceeds by writing the PDE with respect to a local coordinate system anchored to the surface and…
The immersed boundary (IB) method is a non-body conforming approach to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) that uses an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and incompressibility of a coupled fluid-structure system and a…
Immersed finite element (IFE) methods are a group of long-existing numerical methods for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. A core argument of the methods is to avoid mesh regeneration procedure when solving moving interface…
We present a new fixed mesh algorithm for solving a class of interface inverse problems for the typical elliptic interface problems. These interface inverse problems are formulated as shape optimization prob- lems whose objective…
This article presents and analyzes a $p^{th}$-degree immersed finite element (IFE) method for elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jump conditions. In this method, jump conditions are approximated optimally by basic IFE and…
We present a novel framework to deal with static and moving immersed boundaries (IB). In this strategy, called Volume-Filtering Immersed Boundary (VFIB) method, transport equations are derived by filtering the Navier-Stokes equations and…
In this paper, an important discovery has been found for nonconforming immersed finite element (IFE) methods using the integral values on edges as degrees of freedom for solving elliptic interface problems. We show that those IFE methods…
The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is one of the popular one-fluid mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian methods to simulate motion of droplets. While the treatment of a moving complex boundary is an extremely time consuming and formidable task in a…
We extend the recently introduced divergence-conforming immersed boundary (DCIB) method [1] to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving closed co-dimension one solids. We focus on capsules and vesicles, whose discretization is…
In this paper, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) proposed by Pinelli is implemented for finite volume approximations of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations solutions in the open source toolbox OpenFOAM version 2.2. Solid obstacles are…
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,…
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…
A boundary thickening-based direct forcing (BTDF) immersed boundary (IB) method is proposed for fully resolved simulation of incompressible viscous flows laden with finite size particles. By slightly thickening the boundary thickness, the…
A new immersed finite element (IFE) method is developed for second-order elliptic problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficient. The IFE space is constructed based on the rotated Q1 nonconforming finite elements with the integral-value…
We present and analyze a series of benchmark tests regarding the application of the immersed boundary (IB) method to viscoelastic flows through and around non-trivial, stationary geometries. The IB method is widely used for the simulation…
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…