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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

We present a simple modification of the direct-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) proposed by Uhlmann [J. Comput. Phys, 2005] in order to enable it to be applied to particulate flows with solid-to-fluid density ratios around unity. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Manuel Garcia-Villalba , Blanca Fuentes , Jan Dusek , Manuel Moriche , Markus Uhlmann

Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

In this work a finite element simulation of the motion of a rigid body in a fluid, with free surface, is described. A completely general referential description (of which both Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions are special cases) of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. J. Childs , B. D. Reddy

We propose a fluid-rigid body interaction benchmark problem, consisting of a solid spherical obstacle in a Newtonian fluid, whose centre of mass is fixed but is free to rotate. A number of different problems are defined for both two and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Henry von Wahl , Thomas Richter , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Jan Heiland , Piotr Minakowski

Topology optimization methods face serious challenges when applied to structural design with fluid-structure interaction (FSI) loads, specially for high Reynolds fluid flow. This paper devises an explicit boundary method that employs…

Accurately, efficiently, and stably computing complex fluid flows and their evolution near solid boundaries over long horizons remains challenging. Conventional numerical solvers require fine grids and small time steps to resolve near-wall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenglin Li , Hang Xu , Jianting Chen , Yanfei Zhang

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Saswati Roy , Luca Heltai , Francesco Costanzo

In this work, we present a computational fluid-structure interaction (FSI) study for a healthy patient-specific pulmonary arterial tree using the unified continuum and variational multiscale (VMS) formulation we previously developed. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Ju Liu , Weiguang Yang , Ingrid S. Lan , Alison L. Marsden

The immersed boundary method is a numerical and mathematical formulation for solving fluid-structure interaction problems. It relies on solving fluid equations on an Eulerian fluid grid and interpolating the resulting velocity back onto…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Ondrej Maxian , Charles S. Peskin

Robust, broadly applicable fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithms remain a challenge for computational mechanics. In previous work, we introduced an immersed interface method (IIM) for discrete surfaces and an extension based on an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Qi Sun , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

We present a monolithic approach to large-deformation fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems that allows for choosing fully implicit, single-step and single-stage time integration schemes in the structure and fluid field independently,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Matthias Mayr , Thomas Klöppel , Wolfgang A. Wall , Michael W. Gee

In this article, we formulate a monolithic optimal control method for general time-dependent Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) systems with large solid deformation. We consider a displacement-tracking type of objective with a constraint of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yongxing Wang

In the present study, a discrete forcing Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed for the numerical simulation of high-speed flow problems including heat exchange. The flow field is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Hamza Riahi , Eric Goncalves , Marcello Meldi

This paper describes a novel partitioned algorithm for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems that couples the motion of rigid bodies and incompressible flow. This is the first partitioned algorithm that remains stable and second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-15 J. W. Banks , W. D. Henshaw , D. W. Schwendeman , Qi Tang

This paper presents a novel particle method to compute strongly coupled incompressible fluid and rigid bodies. The method adopts a velocity-based formulation and utilizes the linear complementarity problem for the incompressibility…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-01 Shugo Miyamoto , Seiichi Koshizuka

We consider the motion of several rigid bodies immersed in a two-dimensional incompressible perfect fluid. The motion of the rigid bodies is given by the Newton laws with forces due to the fluid pressure and the fluid motion is described by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Olivier Glass , József Kolumbán , Franck Sueur

A unified fluid-structure interaction (FSI) formulation is presented for solid, liquid and mixed membranes. Nonlinear finite elements (FE) and the generalized-alpha scheme are used for the spatial and temporal discretization. The membrane…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Roger A. Sauer , Tobias Luginsland

Simulating the interaction of fluids with immersed moving solids is playing an important role for gaining a better quantitative understanding of how fluid dynamics is altered by the presence of obstacles and which forces are exerted on the…