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Passive flow control via fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is a promising paradigm for unmanned aerial vehicles operating in vortex-dominated low Reynolds number regimes. A flexible structure has the potential to passively alter key…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-07 Srikumar Balasubramanian , Andres Goza

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 paper presents spline-based coupling methods for partitioned multiphysics simulations, specifically designed for isogeometric analysis (IGA) based solvers. Traditional vertex-based coupling approaches face significant challenges when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jing-Ya Li , Hugo M. Verhelst , Henk den Besten , Matthias Möller

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a mathematical framework for constructing robust numerical methods to study fluid-structure interaction in problems involving an elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The IB formulation uses an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Yuanxun Bao , Aleksandar Donev , Boyce E. Griffith , David M. McQueen , Charles S. Peskin

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a mathematical and numerical framework for problems of fluid-structure interaction, treating the particular case in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. The IB…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Boyce E. Griffith

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

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulation of biological systems presents significant computational challenges, particularly for applications involving large structural deformations and contact mechanics, such as heart valve dynamics.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-13 Ryan T. Black , Steve A. Maas , Wensi Wu , Jalaj Maheshwari , Tzanio Kolev , Jeffrey A. Weiss , Matthew A. Jolley

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…

This paper presents a novel volume of fluid ghost-cell immersed boundary (IB) method for two-phase free surface flow interacting with structures. To circumvent the disturbance occurring around the intersection area of the IB and free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-16 Fan Chen , Jinghua Wang , Huan-Feng Duan

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

We present an immersed boundary projection method formulated in a body-fixed frame of reference for flow-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving rigid bodies with complex geometries. The body-fixed formulation is aimed at maximizing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-07 Tzu-Yuan Lin , Hsin-Yu Hsieh , Hsieh-Chen Tsai

We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes flow. The spatio-temporal discretization of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-02 B. Kallemov , A. Pal Singh Bhalla , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

We present a novel computational modeling framework to numerically investigate fluid-structure interaction in viscous fluids using the phase field embedding method. Each rigid body or elastic structure immersed in the incompressible viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-16 Qi Hong , Qi Wang

The interaction between thin structures and incompressible Newtonian fluids is ubiquitous both in nature and in industrial applications. In this paper we present an isogeometric formulation of such problems which exploits a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Luca Heltai , Josef Kiendl , Antonio DeSimone , Alessandro Reali

In this article, we present a new unified finite element method (UFEM) for simulation of general Fluid-Structure interaction (FSI) which has the same generality and robustness as monolithic methods but is significantly more computationally…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Yongxing Wang , Peter Jimack , Mark Walkley

A mixed continuous / discontinuous Galerkin scheme is introduced for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems in an isogeometric analysis framework. The properties of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline basis functions are leveraged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Régis Duvigneau

We present a collision model for phase-resolved Direct Numerical Simulations of sediment transport that couple the fluid and particles by the Immersed Boundary Method. Typically, a contact model for these types of simulations comprises a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-18 Edward Biegert , Bernhard Vowinckel , Eckart Meiburg

The direct-forcing immersed boundary method (DF-IBM) algorithm previously developed by the authors is extended by coupling the Navier-Stokes equations with the Newton-Euler equations for rigid body dynamics within the DF-IBM framework. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 E. Farah , A. Ouahsine , P. G. Verdin , B. Kaoui

The immersed boundary (IB) method has been used as a means to simulate fluid-membrane interactions in a wide variety of biological and engineering applications. Although the numerical convergence of the method has been empirically verified,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexandre X. Milewski , Charles S. Peskin

A patient-specific fluid-structure interaction (FSI) model of a phase-contrast magnetic resonance angiography (PC-MRA) imaged arteriovenous fistula is presented. The numerical model is developed and simulated using a commercial multiphysics…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 W. P. Guess , B. D. Reddy , A. McBride , B. Spottiswoode , J. Downs , T. Franz