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In this paper we show and discuss the use of a versatile interaction potential approach coupled with an immersed boundary method to simulate a variety of flows involving deformable bodies. In particular, we focus on two kinds of problems,…

Chemical potential is an effective way to drive phase transition or express wettability. In this letter, we present a chemical-potential-based lattice Boltzmann model to simulate multiphase flows. The nonideal force is directly evaluated by…

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Fluid flow past one or more solid bodies is a fundamental problem of much practical importance. Standard solutions of simplified problems involving incompressible inviscid irrotational flow past common geometries such as circular cylinders…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-01 Ankur Jain

Potential flow theory remains a cornerstone of unsteady aerodynamics due to its computational efficiency in modeling complex flow phenomena. This study presents a significant advancement by integrating a viscous unsteady theory with…

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This study proposes a novel topology optimization method for unsteady fluid flows induced by actively moving rigid bodies. The key idea of the proposed method is to decouple the design and analysis domains by using separate grids. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yuta Tanabe , Kentaro Yaji , Kuniharu Ushijima

Quantum computing holds great promise to accelerate scientific computations in fluid dynamics and other classical physical systems. While various quantum algorithms have been proposed for linear flows, developing quantum algorithms for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Boyuan Wang , Zhaoyuan Meng , Yaomin Zhao , Yue Yang

For accurate simulations of rarefied gas flows around moving obstacles, we propose a cut cell method on Cartesian grids: it allows exact conservation and accurate treatment of boundary conditions. Our approach is designed to treat Cartesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Guillaume Dechristé , Luc Mieussens

The particles on demand (PonD) method is a new kinetic theory model that allows for simulation of high speed compressible flows. While standard Lattice-Boltzmann is limited by a fixed reference frame, significantly reducing the range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-07 Abhimanyu Bhadauria , Ilya Karlin

Modelling the vascular transport and adhesion of man-made particles is crucial for optimizing their efficacy in the detection and treatment of diseases. Here, a Lattice Boltzmann and Immersed Boundary methods are combined together for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-07 Alessandro Coclite , Marco Donato de Tullio , Giuseppe Pascazio , Paolo Decuzzi

Spectral methods are well suited for solving hydrodynamic problems in which the self-gravity of the flow needs to be considered. Because Poisson's equation is linear, the numerical solution for the gravitational potential for each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

The flow in a shock tube is extremely complex with dynamic multi-scale structures of sharp fronts, flow separation, and vortices due to the interaction of the shock wave, the contact surface, and the boundary layer over the side wall of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Guangzhao Zhou , Kun Xu , Feng Liu

In this paper, we develop a lattice Boltzmann scheme based on the Vielbein formalism for the study of fluid flows on spherical surfaces. The Vielbein vector field encodes all details related to the geometry of the underlying spherical…

The present paper is devoted to implementation of the immersed boundary technique into the Fourier pseudo-spectral solution of the vorticity-velocity formulation of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. The immersed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Fereidoun Sabetghadam , Mehdi Badri , Shervin Sharafatmandjoor , Hosnieh Kor

Coarse grid projection (CGP) is a multiresolution technique for accelerating numerical calculations associated with a set of nonlinear evolutionary equations along with the stiff Poisson equations. In this article we use CGP for the first…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Ali Kashefi

The lattice Boltzmann method can be used to simulate flow through porous media with full geometrical resolution. With such a direct numerical simulation, it becomes possible to study fundamental effects which are difficult to assess either…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-08-13 Ehsan Fattahia , Christian Waluga , Barbara Wohlmuth , Ulrich Rüde , Michael Manhart , Rainer Helmig

We derive the vorticity equation for an incompressible fluid on a 2-dimensional surface with arbitrary topology embedded in 3-dimensional Euclidean space by using a tailored Clebsch parametrization of the flow. In the inviscid limit, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

We present a model appropriate to the initial motion (2-3 chords of travel) of a flat-plate airfoil accelerating in an inviscid fluid. The separated flow structures are represented as vortex sheets in the conventional manner and similarity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 A. C. DeVoria , K. Mohseni

This work presents a numerical model for the simulation of potential flow past three dimensional lifting surfaces. The solver is based on the collocation Boundary Element Method, combined with Galerkin variational formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Luca Cattarossi , Filippo Sacco , Nicola Giuliani , Nicola Parolini , Andrea Mola

The distribution of forces on the surface of complex, deforming geometries is an invaluable output of flow simulations. One particular example of such geometries involves self-propelled swimmers. Surface forces can provide significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-25 Siddhartha Verma , Gabriele Abbati , Guido Novati , Petros Koumoutsakos

This work explores the capability of simulating complex fluid flows by directly solving the Boltzmann equation. Due to the high-dimensionality of the governing equation, the substantial computational cost of solving the Boltzmann equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tarik Dzanic , Luigi Martinelli