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Power minimisation in branched fluidic networks has gained significant attention in biology and engineering. The optimal network is defined by channel radii that minimise the sum of viscous dissipation and the volumetric energetic cost of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-16 Jan Siemen Smink , Rob Hagmeijer , Cornelis Henricus Venner , Claas Willem Visser

This paper demonstrates the application of the density-based topology optimisation approach for the design of heat sinks and micropumps based on natural convection effects. The problems are modelled under the assumptions of steady-state…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-19 Joe Alexandersen , Niels Aage , Casper Schousboe Andreasen , Ole Sigmund

In this paper, we present a framework for multiscale topology optimization of fluid-flow devices. The objective is to minimize dissipated power, subject to a desired contact-area. The proposed strategy is to design optimal microstructures…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Krishnan Suresh , Aaditya Chandrasekhar

To design a method to solve the issues of handling 'dirty' and highly complex geometries, the topology-free method combined with the immersed boundary method is presented for viscous and incompressible flows at a high Reynolds number. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Keiji Onishi , Makoto Tsubokura

We propose and analyze unfitted finite element approximations for the two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes flow in an axisymmetric setting. The discretized schemes are based on an Eulerian weak formulation for the Navier--Stokes equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

The application of modern topology optimization techniques to single physics systems has seen great advances in the last three decades. However, the application of these tools to sophisticated multiphysics systems such as fluid-structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Mohamed Abdelhamid , Aleksander Czekanski

This paper presents an adjoint-assisted, topology-optimization-inspired approach for analyzing topological sensitivities in fluid domains based on porous media formulations -- without directly utilizing the porosity field as a design…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Niklas Kühl

A method for density-based topology optimization of heat exchangers with two fluids is proposed. The goal of the optimization process is to maximize the heat transfer from one fluid to the other, under maximum pressure drop constraints for…

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

Binary-fluid flows can be modeled using the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which represent the boundary between the fluid constituents by a diffuse interface. The diffuse-interface model allows for complex geometries and topological…

This paper is concerned with the optimal shape design of the newtonian viscous incompressible fluids driven by the stationary nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We use three approaches to derive the structures of shape gradients for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma , Hongwei Zhuang

Characteristics of Oscillating Flow in a Straight Tube with varying thickness of porous layer at the wall is studied. Results for two different porous layer is discussed and compared in terms of Velocity Profile, phase differences and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 Pawan Kumar Pandey , Malay Kumar Das

Flow topology optimization (ToOpt) based on Darcy's source term is widely used in the field of ToOpt. It has a high degree of freedom and requires no initial configuration, making it suitable for conceptual aerodynamic design. Two problems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Chenyu Wu , Yufei Zhang

Fluid flows are omnipresent in nature and engineering disciplines. The reliable computation of fluids has been a long-lasting challenge due to nonlinear interactions over multiple spatio-temporal scales. The compressible Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 Deniz A. Bezgin , Aaron B. Buhendwa , Nikolaus A. Adams

In this paper we study a finite-depth layer of viscous incompressible fluid in dimension $n \ge 2$, modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations. The fluid is assumed to be bounded below by a flat rigid surface and above by a free, moving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Giovanni Leoni , Ian Tice

For an accurate description of nanofluidic systems, it is crucial to account for the transport properties of liquids at surfaces on sub-nanometer scales, where classical hydrodynamics fails due to the finite range of surface-liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Shane R. Carlson , Roland R. Netz

An obstacle is immersed in an externally driven 2D Stokes or Navier-Stokes fluid. We study the self-equilibration conditions for that obstacle under steady state assumptions on the flow. We then seek to optimize the translational and/or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Gilles A. Francfort , Alessandro Giacomini , Scott Weady

An outstanding characteristic of porous media, desired in many applications, is the large surface area, which facilitates solid-fluid interactions, making porous media an extreme case in colloid and interface science. In two-fluid systems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-23 Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong , Maja Rücker , Alex Hansen , Signe Kjelstrup , Dick Bedeaux

A stable added-mass partitioned (AMP) algorithm is developed for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving viscous incompressible flow and compressible elastic solids. Deforming composite grids are used to effectively handle the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Daniel A. Serino , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

In this work, we present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase Navier-Stokes flow with viscoelasticity. The free boundary problem is given by the viscoelastic Navier-Stokes equations in the two fluid phases, connected by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Dennis Trautwein