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Simulation of unsteady creeping flows in complex geometries has traditionally required the use of a time-stepping procedure, which is typically costly and unscalable. To reduce the cost and allow for computations at much larger scales, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Chenwei Meng , Anirban Bhattacharjee , Mahdi Esmaily

In a number of problems in computational physics, a finite sum of kernel functions centered at $N$ particle locations located in a box in three dimensions must be extended by imposing periodic boundary conditions on box boundaries. Even…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

We develop a fast method for computing the electrostatic energy and forces for a collection of charges in doubly-periodic slabs with jumps in the dielectric permittivity at the slab boundaries. Our method achieves spectral accuracy by using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Ondrej Maxian , Raul P. Peláez , Leslie Greengard , Aleksandar Donev

We propose an efficient threshold dynamics method for topology optimization for fluids modeled with the Stokes equation. The proposed algorithm is based on minimization of an objective energy function that consists of the dissipation power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Huangxin Chen , Haitao Leng , Dong Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

Many problems in fluid dynamics are effectively modeled as Stokes flows - slow, viscous flows where the Reynolds number is small. Boundary integral equations are often used to solve these problems, where the fundamental solutions for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 J. Thomas Beale , Christina Jones , Jillian Reale , Svetlana Tlupova

Understanding the flow of complex media is relevant for a wide range of research fields and industrial applications. Several numerical approaches exist by which approximate solutions can be determined for the Stokes equations that describe…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Georg Rempfer , Chengkai Zhu , Bart Stam , Mae Nesenberend , Debabrata Panja , Joost de Graaf

Single-phase Stokes flow problems with prescribed boundary conditions can be formulated in terms of a boundary regularized integral equation that is completely free of singularities that exist in the traditional formulation. The usual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Q. Sun , E. Klaseboer , B. C. Khoo , D. Y. C. Chan

Many different simulation methods for Stokes flow problems involve a common computationally intense task -- the summation of a kernel function over $O(N^2)$ pairs of points. One popular technique is the Kernel Independent Fast Multipole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Wen Yan , Robert Blackwell

The Biot-Savart law is relevant in physical contexts including electromagnetism and fluid dynamics. In the latter case, when the rotation of a fluid is confined to a set of very thin vortex filaments, this law describes the velocity field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Juan Ignacio Polanco

We present a spectrally-accurate scheme to turn a boundary integral formulation for an elliptic PDE on a single unit cell geometry into one for the fully periodic problem. Applications include computing the effective permeability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Alex H. Barnett , Gary Marple , Shravan Veerapaneni , Lin Zhao

Interfacial Stokes flow can be efficiently computed using the Boundary Integral Equation method. In 3D, the fluid velocity at a target point is given by a 2D surface integral over all interfaces, thus reducing the dimension of the problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Monika Nitsche , Bowei Wu , Ling Xu

Over three decades ago the advection-diffusion equation for a steady fluid velocity field was homogenized, leading to a Stieltjes integral representation for the effective diffusivity, which is given in terms of a spectral measure of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-30 N. B. Murphy , D. Hallman , E. Cherkaev , J. Xin , K. M. Golden

The method of regularised stokeslets is widely used in microscale biological fluid dynamics due to its ease of implementation, natural treatment of complex moving geometries, and removal of singular functions to integrate. The standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Meurig Gallagher , David Smith

Standard Ewald sums, which calculate e.g. the electrostatic energy or the force in periodically closed systems of charged particles, can be efficiently speeded up by the use of the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT). In this article we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus Deserno , Christian Holm

Performing highly accurate simulations of droplet systems is a challenging problem. This is primarily due to the interface dynamics which is complicated further by the addition of surfactants. This paper presents a boundary integral method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Sara Pålsson , Michael Siegel , Anna-Karin Tornberg

In this work we develop the Spectral Ewald Accelerated Stokesian Dynamics (SEASD), a novel computational method for dynamic simulations of polydisperse colloidal suspensions with full hydrodynamic interactions. SEASD is based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mu Wang , John F. Brady

The method of regularized Stokeslets, based on the divergence-free exact solution to the equations of highly viscous flow due to a spatially-smoothed concentrated force, is widely employed in biological fluid mechanics. Many problems of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-12 James Tyrrell , David J Smith , Rosemary J Dyson

In this paper, we are interested in the error estimates of the reiterated Stokes systems in a bounded $C^{1,1}$ domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. And we have obtained the $O(\varepsilon)$ error estimates for the velocity term and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Yiping Zhang

We present a fast algorithm for evaluating the (non-smooth) solution of the free-space two-dimensional (2D) scalar wave equation with many point sources, each with a high-frequency band-limited time signature. Such an algorithm is key to an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Nour G. Al Hassanieh , Leslie Greengard , Alex H. Barnett

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