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This paper introduces a sharp interface method to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) involving rigid bodies immersed in viscous incompressible fluids. The capabilities of this methodology are demonstrated for a range of benchmark…

Fluid-structure systems occur in a range of scientific and engineering applications. The immersed boundary(IB) method is a widely recognized and effective modeling paradigm for simulating fluid-structure interaction(FSI) in such systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Brent A. Craven , Boyce E. Griffith

The immersed boundary-finite element method (IBFE) is an approach to describing the dynamics of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this formulation, there are discontinuities in the pressure and viscous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Charles Puelz , Boyce E. Griffith

The immersed boundary method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses a Lagrangian description of the structural deformations, stresses, and forces along with an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Boyce E. Griffith , Xiaoyu Luo

We introduce an Eulerian approach for problems involving one or more soft solids immersed in a fluid, which permits mechanical interactions between all phases. The reference map variable is exploited to simulate finite-deformation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Boris Valkov , Chris H. Rycroft , Ken Kamrin

This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tim Wallis , Philip Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

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

In this paper, we present a novel interface-driven adaptive variational procedure using a fully Eulerian description of fluid-structure interaction. The proposed fully-Eulerian procedure involves a fixed background unstructured mesh on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Biswajeet Rath , Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev K. Jaiman

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

A novel method for complex fluid-structure interaction (FSI) involving large structural deformation and motion is proposed. The new approach is based on a hybrid fluid formulation that combines the advantages of purely Eulerian (fixed-grid)…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Benedikt Schott , Christoph Ager , Wolfgang A. Wall

The immersed boundary method is a numerical and mathematical formulation for solving fluid-structure interaction problems. It relies on solving fluid equations on an Eulerian fluid grid and interpolating the resulting velocity back onto…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Ondrej Maxian , Charles S. Peskin

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

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising approach for solving complex fluid dynamics problems, yet their application to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems with moving boundaries remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Afrah Farea , Saiful Khan , Reza Daryani , Emre Cenk Ersan , Mustafa Serdar Celebi

Body-fitted arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) methods provide a sharp representation of the fluid-structure interface but rely on mesh-update strategies that incrementally deform a reference configuration. To address this issue, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jingya Li , Ye Ji , Hugo Verhelst , Henk den Besten , Matthias Möller

In this paper, we propose a linear and monolithic finite element method for the approximation of an incompressible viscous fluid interacting with an elastic and deforming plate. We use the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Sebastian Schwarzacher , Bangwei She , Karel Tuma

The immersed boundary method is a mathematical framework for modeling fluid-structure interaction. This formulation describes the momentum, viscosity, and incompressibility of the fluid-structure system in Eulerian form, and it uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Ben Vadala-Roth , Shashank Acharya , Neelesh A Patankar , Simone Rossi , Boyce E Griffith

We introduce a novel approach to simulate the interaction between fluids and thin elastic solids without any penetration. Our approach is centered around an optimization system augmented with barriers, which aims to find a configuration…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yuchen Sun , Jinyuan Liu , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang , Minchen Li , Bo Zhu

We present a method for computing fluid-structure interaction problems for multi-body systems. The fluid flow equations are solved using a fractional-step method with the immersed boundary method proposed by Uhlmann [J. Comput Phys. 209…

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

We present a loosely coupled approach for the solution of fluid-structure interaction problems between a compressible flow and a deformable structure. The method is based on staggered Dirichlet-Neumann partitioning. The interface motion in…

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