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Real-time fluid and aeroacoustic simulation on complex surfaces can have interactive applications - from globe-based weather visualizations to immersive computer games with physically accurate wind and sound. However, conventional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Madhusraba Sinha , Jan Stratmann

Finite element methods based on cut-cells are becoming increasingly popular because of their advantages over formulations based on body-fitted meshes for problems with moving interfaces. In such methods, the cells (or elements) which are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Chennakesava Kadapa , Xinyu Wang , Yue Mei

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is a popular numerical approach to impose boundary conditions without relying on body-fitted grids, thus reducing the costly effort of mesh generation. To obtain enhanced accuracy, IBM can be combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Victor J. Llorente , Jiaqing Kou , Eusebio Valero , Esteban Ferrer

We present the implementation and validation of an immersed boundary volume penalization method in the computational fluid dynamics solver CODA (from ONERA, DLR, and Airbus). Our goal is to model and simulate turbulent fluid flows in…

When simulating three-dimensional flows interacting with deformable and elastic obstacles, current methods often encounter complexities in the governing equations and challenges in numerical implementation. In this work, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Andreu F. Gallen , Joan Muñoz Biosca , Mario Castro , Aurora Hernández-Machado

A multi-scale framework was recently proposed for more realistic molecular dynamics simulations in continuum solvent models by coupling a molecular mechanics treatment of solute with a fluid mechanics treatment of solvent, where we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Li Xiao , Ray Luo

We present a sharp collocated projection method for solving the immiscible, two-phase Navier-Stokes equations in two- and three-dimensions. Our method is built using non-graded adaptive quadtree and octree grids, where all of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Adam L. Binswanger , Matthew Blomquist , Scott R. West , Shilpa Khatri , Maxime Theillard

This paper presents a novel p-adaptive, high-order mesh-free framework for the accurate and efficient simulation of fluid flows in complex geometries. High-order differential operators are constructed locally for arbitrary node…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ruofeng Feng , Jack R. C. King , Steven J. Lind

The majority of available numerical algorithms for interfacial two-phase flows either treat both fluid phases as incompressible (constant density) or treat both phases as compressible (variable density). This presents a limitation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Fabian Denner , Berend van Wachem

We present a characterization of the forcing and the sub-filter scale terms produced in the volume-filtering immersed boundary (VF-IB) method by Dave et al, JCP, 2023. The process of volume-filtering produces bodyforces in the form of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Dave Himanshu , Herrmann Marcus , Brady Peter , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

Insoluble surfactants adsorbed at liquid-liquid or gas-liquid interfaces alter interfacial tension, leading to variations in the normal stress jump and generating tangential Marangoni stresses that can dramatically affect the flow dynamics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zhong-Han Xue , Jacques Magnaudet , Jie Zhang

This paper deals with a new solid-fluid coupling algorithm between a rigid body and an unsteady compressible fluid flow, using an Embedded Boundary method. The coupling with a rigid body is a first step towards the coupling with a Discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Laurent Monasse , Virginie Daru , Christian Mariotti , Serge Piperno , Christian Tenaud

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…

Immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) has been widely used for simulation of particle-laden flows recently. However, it was limited to small-scale simulations with no more than O(103) particles. Here, we expand IB-LBM for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Maoqiang Jiang , Jing Li , Zhaohui Liu

In this paper, we propose and analyze a diffuse interface model for inductionless magnetohydrodynamic fluids. The model couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the evolution of the interface, the Navier-Stokes system for fluid flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Xiaodi Zhang

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

This paper presents and analyzes an immersed finite element (IFE) method for solving Stokes interface problems with a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient that has a jump across the interface. In the method, the triangulation does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

The Immersed Boundary method has evolved into one of the most useful computational methods in studying fluid structure interaction. On the other hand, the Immersed Boundary method is also known to suffer from a severe timestep stability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Thomas Y. Hou , Zuoqiang Shi

We present a moving control volume (CV) approach to computing hydrodynamic forces and torques on complex geometries. The method requires surface and volumetric integrals over a simple and regular Cartesian box that moves with an arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nishant Nangia , Hans Johansen , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

In this paper we propose an efficient second order well balanced finite volume method for modeling complex free surface flows at the aid of a simple diffuse interface method. The employed physical model is a two-phase model derived from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Elena Gaburro , Manuel J. Castro , Michael Dumbser