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An immersed-boundary method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations is presented. It employs discrete forcing for a sharp discrimination of the solid-fluid interface, and achieves second-order accuracy, demonstrated in examples with…

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Brittany J. Leathers

It is well known that the number of particles should be scaled up to enable industrial scale simulation. The calculations are more computationally intensive when the motion of the surrounding fluid is considered. Besides the advances in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Hao Zhang , F. Xavier Trias , Assensi Oliva , Dongmin Yang , Yuanqiang Tan , Shi Shu , Yong Sheng

A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Faraz Salimnezhad , Hasret Turkeri , Iskender Gokalp , Metin Muradoglu

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

This paper introduces a sharp-interface approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction involving flexible bodies described by general nonlinear material models and across a broad range of mass density ratios. This new flexible-body…

This work presents a comprehensive framework for enhanced diffusion modeling in fluid-structure interactions by combining the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with stochastic trajectories and high-order spectral boundary conditions. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

We develop a Fluctuating Immersed Boundary (FIB) method for performing Brownian dynamics simulations of confined particle suspensions. Unlike traditional methods which employ analytical Green's functions for Stokes flow in the confined…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-29 S. Delong , F. Balboa Usabiaga , R. Delgado-Buscalioni , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies have been increasingly used for blood flow simulations in intracranial aneurysms (ICAs). However, despite the continuous progress of body-fitted CFD solvers, generating a high quality mesh is still…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-28 D. S. Lampropoulos , G. C. Bourantas , B. F. Zwick , G. C. Kagadis , A. Wittek , K. Miller , V. C. Loukopoulos

In the present study, a discrete forcing Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed for the numerical simulation of high-speed flow problems including heat exchange. The flow field is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Hamza Riahi , Eric Goncalves , Marcello Meldi

The computational cost of the boundary-condition-enforced immersed boundary method (IBM) increases in the order of $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ as the number of Lagrangian points, $N$, increases. This is due to the time-consuming calculation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-25 Manabu Saito , Ryoichi Kurose

Accurate and efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems remains a central challenge in computational physics. High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer low numerical errors and excellent scalability on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yingjie Xia , Stefano Colombo , David Huergo , Jiaqing Kou , Yuting Dai , Esteban Ferrer

A new formulation of the immersed boundary method, which facilitates accurate simulation of incompressible isothermal and natural convection flows around immersed bodies and which may be applied for accurate linear stability analysis of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-17 Yuri Feldman , Yosef Gulberg

We present a numerical method for interface-resolved simulations of evaporating two-fluid flows based on the volume-of-fluid (VoF) method. The method has been implemented in an efficient FFT-based two-fluid Navier-Stokes solver, using an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Nicolò Scapin , Pedro Costa , Luca Brandt

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 immersed boundary method (IB) is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas Battista , Christopher Strickland , Aaron Barrett , Laura Miller

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is a popular numerical approach to impose boundary conditions without relying on body-fitted grids, thus reducing the costly effort of mesh generation. To obtain enhanced accuracy, IBM can be combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Victor J. Llorente , Jiaqing Kou , Eusebio Valero , Esteban Ferrer

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

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular Cartesian grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Brittany J. Leathers , Robert D. Guy

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