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This paper proposes a Cartesian grid-based boundary integral method for efficiently and stably solving two representative moving interface problems, the Hele-Shaw flow and the Stefan problem. Elliptic and parabolic partial differential…

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We present a robust immersed boundary (IB) method for high density ratio multiphase flows that is capable of modeling complex wave-structure interaction (WSI) problems arising in marine and coastal engineering applications. The IB/WSI…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a general mathematical framework for studying problems involving fluid-structure interactions in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. In the IB formulation, the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Yuanxun Bao , Alexander D. Kaiser , Jason Kaye , Charles S. Peskin

In this paper a fully Eulerian solver for the study of multiphase flows for simulating the propagation of surface gravity waves over submerged bodies is presented. We solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Francesco De Vita , Filippo De Lillo , Roberto Verzicco , Miguel Onorato

Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) remains a fundamental yet computationally challenging problem in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This study develops a moving mesh Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithm within a Runge-Kutta…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-04 Jia-Jun Zou , Yun-Long Liu , Qi Kong , A-Man Zhang

We consider a diffuse interface approach for solving an elliptic PDE on a given closed hypersurface. The method is based on a (bulk) finite element scheme employing numerical quadrature for the phase field function and hence is very easy to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 John W. Barrett , Klaus Deckelnick , Vanessa Styles

Preserving pressure equilibrium across material interfaces is critical for the stability of compressible multi-material flow simulations, yet most interface-fitted sharp-interface schemes are notoriously sensitive to interface geometry:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Chaoyi Cai , Di Wu , Jianxian Qiu

Frictional sliding contact in hydrodynamic environments can be found in a range of engineering applications. Accurate modeling requires an integrated numerical framework capable of resolving large relative motions, multiphase interactions,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Biswajeet Rath , Rajeev K. Jaiman

Our paper proposes an innovative approach for modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI). Our method combines both traditional monolithic and partitioned approaches, creating a hybrid solution that facilitates FSI. At each time iteration,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 R. Nemer , A. Larcher , E. Hachem

A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) coupled with the immersed boundary (IB) method is developed to perform interface-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The present method (IB-DUGKS) preserves the respective advantages of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shi Tao , Haolong Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Lian-Ping Wang

We describe a general phase-field model for hyperelastic multiphase materials. The model features an elastic energy functional that depends on the phase-field variable and a surface energy term that depends in turn on the elastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Diego Grandi , Martin Kružík , Edoardo Mainini , Ulisse Stefanelli

This paper proposes a new general methodology for finite-time singularity formation for moving interface problems involving the incompressible Euler equations in the plane. The first problem considered is the two-phase Euler vortex sheets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Daniel Coutand

This work considers a Stokes flow in a deformable fracture interacting with a linear elastic medium. To this end, we employ a phase-field model to approximate the crack dynamics. Phase-field methods belong to interface-capturing approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Henry von Wahl , Thomas Wick

The aim of this paper is to present and validate two new procedures to enforce the Geometric Conservation Law (GCL) on a moving grid for an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation of the Euler equations discretized in time for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marc Benoit , Siva Nadarajah

The evolution of interfaces is intrinsic to many physical processes ranging from cavitation in fluids to recrystallization in solids. Computational modeling of interface motion entails a number of challenges, many of which are related to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Erdem Eren , Brandon Runnels , Jeremy Mason

In this paper we propose an efficient second order well balanced finite volume method for modeling complex free surface flows at the aid of a simple diffuse interface method. The employed physical model is a two-phase model derived from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Elena Gaburro , Manuel J. Castro , Michael Dumbser

Many multiphase fluid systems, such as those involving immiscible polymers or liquid-liquid systems with surfactants, have shown a breakdown of the no-slip condition at the material interface. This results in systems where the tangential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-05 Afsoun Rahnama Falavarjani , David Salac

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-29 Johan Roenby , Henrik Bredmose , Hrvoje Jasak

We introduce a new regularized interface method for proving existence of weak solutions to nonlinear moving boundary problems with low-regularity interfaces. We study a fluid-poroelastic structure interaction (FPSI) problem coupling the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jeffrey Kuan , Sunčica Čanić , Boris Muha

We present accurate and mathematically consistent formulations of a diffuse-interface model for two-phase flow problems involving rapid evaporation. The model addresses challenges including discontinuities in the density field by several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Magdalena Schreter-Fleischhacker , Peter Munch , Nils Much , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier