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Mesh offsetting plays an important role in discrete geometric processing. In this paper, we propose a parallel feature-preserving mesh offsetting framework with variable distance. Different from the traditional method based on distance and…
A well-known drawback of the Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method is that the breakup of thin liquid films or filaments is mainly caused by numerical aspects rather than by physical ones. The rupture of thin films occurs when their thickness…
The moment-of-fluid (MOF) method is an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). By minimizing the least square error of the centroid of the cutting polyhedron, the MOF method…
An important ingredient of any moving-mesh method for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems is the mesh deformation technique (MDT) used to adapt the computational mesh in the moving fluid domain. An ideal technique is computationally…
We devise a numerical method for passive advection of a surface, such as the interface between two incompressible fluids, across a computational mesh. The method is called isoAdvector, and is developed for general meshes consisting of…
We explore the recently-proposed Virtual Element Method (VEM) for numerical solution of boundary value problems on arbitrary polyhedral meshes. More specifically, we focus on the elasticity equations in three-dimensions and elaborate upon…
We present a novel interface-capturing scheme, THINC-scaling, to unify the VOF (volume of fluid) and the level set methods, which have been developed as two completely different approaches widely used in various applications. The…
Deep generative models have shown success in generating 3D shapes with different representations. In this work, we propose Neural Volumetric Mesh Generator(NVMG) which can generate novel and high-quality volumetric meshes. Unlike the…
In this study, we present a parallel topology algorithm with a suitable interpolation method for chimera simulations in CFD. The implementation is done in the unstructured Finite Volume (FV) framework and special attention is given to the…
We propose a numerical method for solving block-structured mesh partitioning problems based on the variational level-set method of (Zhao et al., J Comput Phys 127, 1996) which has been widely used in many partitioning problems such as image…
A second-order face-centred finite volume method (FCFV) is proposed. Contrary to the more popular cell-centred and vertex-centred finite volume (FV) techniques, the proposed method defines the solution on the faces of the mesh (edges in two…
High-order CFD is gathering a broadening interest as a future industrial tool, with one such approach being Flux Reconstruction (FR). However, due to the need to mesh complex geometries if FR is to displace current, lower order methods, FR…
We revisit simple algebraic VOF methods for advection of material interfaces based of the well established TVD paradigm. We show that greatly improved representation of contact discontinuities is obtained through use of a novel…
This paper extends the author's previous two-dimensional work with Ou and LeVeque to high-resolution finite volume modeling of systems of fluids and poroelastic media in three dimensions, using logically rectangular mapped grids. A method…
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.…
Microstructures, characterized by intricate structures at the microscopic scale, hold the promise of important disruptions in the field of mechanical engineering due to the superior mechanical properties they offer. One fundamental…
Traditional methods for high-dimensional diffeomorphic mapping often struggle with the curse of dimensionality. We propose a mesh-free learning framework designed for $n$-dimensional mapping problems, seamlessly combining variational…
Multiscale mixed methods based on non-overlapping domain decompositions can efficiently handle the solution of significant subsurface flow problems in very heterogeneous formations of interest to the industry, especially when implemented on…
We propose a novel optimization framework for computing the medial axis transform that simultaneously preserves the medial structure and ensures high medial mesh quality. The medial structure, consisting of interconnected sheets, seams, and…
We consider the task of generating realistic 3D shapes, which is useful for a variety of applications such as automatic scene generation and physical simulation. Compared to other 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, meshes are…