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A second-order-accurate finite volume method, hybridized by blending an extended double-flux algorithm and a traditionally conservative scheme, is developed. In this scheme, hybrid convective fluxes as well as hybrid interpolation…

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A novel multi-scale finite element formulation for contact mechanics between nominally smooth but microscopically rough surfaces is herein proposed. The approach integrates the interface finite element method (FEM) for modelling interface…

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The immersed interface method (IIM) for models of fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction imposes jump conditions that capture stress discontinuities generated by forces that are concentrated along immersed boundaries. Most prior work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Michael J. Facci , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

This contribution presents a diffuse framework for modeling cracks in heterogeneous media. Interfaces are depicted by static phase-fields. This concept allows the use of non-conforming meshes. Another phase-field is used to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Franz Dammaß , René de Borst , Markus Kästner

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

One of the major issues in the computational mechanics is to take into account the geometrical complexity. To overcome this difficulty and to avoid the expensive mesh generation, geometrically unfitted methods, i.e. the numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Stephane Cotin , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Killian Vuillemot

We present a space-time Cut Finite Element Method (CutFEM) for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations involving two immiscible incompressible fluids with different viscosities, densities, and with surface tension. The numerical method…

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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

Fluid flow simulation is a highly active area with applications in a wide range of engineering problems and interactive systems. Meshless methods like the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) are a great alternative to deal efficiently with…

In this work, we develop an accelerated sharp-interface method based on (Hu et al., JCP, 2006) and (Luo et al., JCP, 2015) for multiphase flows simulations. Traditional multiphase simulation methods use the minimum time step of all fluids…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Tian Long , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

The complexity of binary droplet collisions increases for the collision of immiscible liquids with the occurrence of triple lines and thin encapsulating films. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is extended with an efficient interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Johanna Potyka , Kathrin Schulte

We systematically validate the static local mesh refinement capabilities of a recently proposed IMEX-DG scheme implemented in the framework of the deal.II library. Non-conforming meshes are employed in atmospheric flow simulations to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Orlando , Tommaso Benacchio , Luca Bonaventura

Understanding the dynamics of phase boundaries in fluids requires quantitative knowledge about the microscale processes at the interface. We consider the sharp-interface motion of compressible two-component flow, and propose a heterogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

The velocity, coupling term in the flow and transport problems, is important in the accurate numerical simulation or in the posteriori error analysis for adaptive mesh refinement. We consider Enhanced Velocity Mixed Finite Element Method…

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We consider in this paper a challenging problem of simulating fluid flows, in complex multiscale media possessing multi-continuum background. As an effort to handle this obstacle, model reduction is employed. In \cite{rh2}, homogenization…

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We present a one-dimensional shear-force-driven droplet formation model with a flux-based error estimator. The model is derived using asymptotic expansion and a front-tracking method to simulate the droplet interface. The model is then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Darsh Nathawani , Matthew Knepley

This work presents a robust and efficient sharp interface immersed boundary (IBM) framework, which is applicable for all-speed flow regimes and is capable of handling arbitrarily complex bodies (stationary or moving). The work deploys an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Pradeep Kumar Seshadri , Ashoke De

We present an efficient mixed finite element method to solve the fourth-order thin film flow equations using moving mesh refinement. The moving mesh strategy is based on harmonic mappings developed by Li et al. [J. Comput. Phys., 170…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Hong Zhang , Paul A Zegeling

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…

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