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Fluid-structure interactions are central to many bio-molecular processes, and they impose a great challenge for computational and modeling methods. In this paper, we consider the immersed boundary method (IBM) for biofluid systems, and to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Yushuang Luo , Xiantao Li , Wenrui Hao

In this paper, we propose improved wall-treatment strategies for meshfree methods applied to turbulent flows. The goal is to enhance wall-function handling in simulations of high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows and to understand the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mohan Padmanabha , Jörg Kuhnert , Nicolas R. Gauger , Pratik Suchde

We apply the immersed boundary (or IB) method to simulate deformation and detachment of a periodic array of wall-bounded biofilm colonies in response to a linear shear flow. The biofilm material is represented as a network of Hookean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-01 Rangarajan Sudarsan , Sudeshna Ghosh , John M. Stockie , Hermann J. Eberl

This paper presents a general and robust method for the fluid-structure interaction of membranes and shells undergoing large displacement and large added-mass effects by coupling an immersed-boundary method with a shell finite-element…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

The Material Point Method (MPM) has become a cornerstone of physics-based simulation, widely used in geomechanics and computer graphics for modeling phenomena such as granular flows, viscoelasticity, fracture mechanics, etc. Despite its…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Michael Liu , Xinlei Wang , Minchen Li

There exists an increasing interest for using immersed boundary methods (IBMs) (Peskin 2000) to model moving objects in computational fluid dynamics. Indeed, this approach is particularly efficient, because the fluid mesh does not require…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Joel Beny , Jonas Latt

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) solver for numerically solving incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. Particular emphasis is given to internal flows with complex geometries (blood flow in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 G. C. Bourantas , D. L. Lampropoulos , B. F. Zwick , V. C. Loukopoulos , A. Wittek , K. Miller

The immersed boundary (IB) method has become a leading approach in cardiac fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling due to its ability to handle large deformations and complex geometries without requiring mesh regeneration. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Pengfei Ma , Li Cai , Xuan Wang , Hao Gao

We present a collocated-grid framework for Direct Numerical Simulations of polydisperse particles submerged in a viscous fluid. The fluid-particle forces are coupled with the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) while the particle-particle forces…

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

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a widely used approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Although explicit versions of the IB method can suffer from severe time step size restrictions, these methods remain popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams , Robert D. Guy , Boyce E. Griffith

We present an approach for numerically simulating the dynamics of flexible fibers in a three-dimensional shear flow using a scalable immersed boundary (IB) algorithm based on Guermond and Minev's pseudo-compressible fluid solver. The fibers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-08 Jeffrey K. Wiens , John M. Stockie

A physics-infused strategy relying on the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) is here used to augment the accuracy of a continuous Immersed Boundary Method (IBM). The latter is a classical penalty method accounting for the presence of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-16 Miguel M. Valero , Marcello Meldi

The paper is concerned with the development of efficient and accurate solution procedures for the isogeometric boundary element method (BEM) when applied to problems that contain inclusions that have elastic properties different to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Gernot Beer , Eugenio Ruocco , Christian Duenser , Vincenzo Mallardo

In so-called Lagrangian melting problems, a solid immersed in a fluid medium is free to rotate and translate in tandem with its phase-change from solid to liquid. Such configurations may be classified as a fluid-solid interaction (FSI)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-16 Kevin Zhong , Christopher J. Howland , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

Understanding the flow of deformable particles such as liquid drops, synthetic capsules and vesicles, and biological cells confined in a small channel is essential to a wide range of potential chemical and biomedical engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 J. M. Lyu , Paul G. Chen , G. Boedec , M. Leonetti , M. Jaeger

The immersed isogeometric Boundary Element Method is presented and applied to the simulation of underground excavations. Nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBS) are used for the accurate definition of complex geometries with few parameters.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Gernot Beer , Christian Duenser

We present a new method for the geometric reconstruction of elastic surfaces simulated by the immersed boundary method with the goal of simulating the motion and interactions of cells in whole blood. Our method uses parameter-free radial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Andrew Kassen , Aaron Barrett , Varun Shankar , Aaron L. Fogelson

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a mathematical framework for fluid-structure interaction problems (FSI) that was originally developed to simulate flows around heart valves. Direct comparison of FSI simulations around heart valves…