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The dynamics of evolving fluid films in the viscous Stokes limit is relevant to various applications, such as the modeling of lipid bilayers in cells. While the governing equations were formulated by Scriven in 1960, solving for the flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-29 Cuncheng Zhu , David Saintillan , Albert Chern

A highly accurate method for simulating surfactant-covered droplets in two-dimensional Stokes flow with solid boundaries is presented. The method handles both periodic channel flows of arbitrary shape and stationary solid constrictions. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Sara Pålsson , Anna-Karin Tornberg

We present a simple and efficient variational finite difference method for simulating time-dependent Stokes flow in the presence of irregular free surfaces and moving solid boundaries. The method uses an embedded boundary approach on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Christopher Batty , Robert Bridson

The aim of this note is to present a numerical method to solve the Stokes problem in a bounded domain with a Dirac source term, which preserves optimality for any approximation order by the finite-element method. It is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Loïc Lacouture

The aim of this paper is to study the shape optimization method for solving the Bernoulli free boundary problem, a well-known ill-posed problem that seeks the unknown free boundary through Cauchy data. Different formulations have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Wei Gong , Le Liu

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

We develop and implement a Bayesian approach for the estimation of the shape of a two dimensional annular domain enclosing a Stokes flow from sparse and noisy observations of the enclosed fluid. Our setup includes the case of direct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Jeff Borggaard , Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Justin A. Krometis

We propose a numerical method to approximate viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear free transmission problems. The method discretises a two-layer regularisation of a PDE, involving a functional and a vanishing parameter. The former is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Edgard A. Pimentel , Ercília Sousa

We present a new derivation of a boundary integral equation (BIE) for simulating the three-dimensional dynamics of arbitrarily-shaped rigid particles of genus zero immersed in a Stokes fluid, on which are prescribed forces and torques. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Eduardo Corona , Leslie Greengard , Manas Rachh , Shravan Veerapaneni

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a moving contact line. This makes numerical simulations challenging, especially when capillary effects are essential for the dynamics of the flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-18 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

This article is concerned with the reconstruction of obstacle $\O$ immersed in a fluid flowing in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the two dimensional case. We assume that the fluid motion is governed by the Stokes-Brinkmann equations. We make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Mourad Hrizi , Rakia Malek , Maatoug Hassine

Recently there has been an increasing interest for a better understanding of ultra low Reynolds number flows. In this context we present a new setup which allows to efficiently solve the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vincent Heuveline , Peter Wittwer

In this paper we discuss a level set approach for the identification of an unknown boundary in a computational domain. The problem takes the form of a Bernoulli problem where only the Dirichlet datum is known on the boundary that is to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Erik Burman , Cuiyu He , Mats G. Larson

PDE-constrained optimization is a field of numerical analysis that combines the theory of PDEs, nonlinear optimization and numerical linear algebra. Optimization problems of this kind arise in many physical applications, prominently in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Gennadij Heidel , Andy Wathen

In this paper we study obstacles immerged in a Stokes flow with Navier boundary conditions. We prove the existence and regularity of an obstacle with minimal drag, among all shapes of prescribed volume and controlled surface area, taking…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dorin Bucur , Antonin Chambolle , Alessandro Giacomini , Mickaël Nahon

We develop a cut finite element method for the Bernoulli free boundary problem. The free boundary, represented by an approximate signed distance function on a fixed background mesh, is allowed to intersect elements in an arbitrary fashion.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Recently, the Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) was proposed within the class of unfitted (or immersed, or embedded) finite element methods. By reformulating the original boundary value problem over a surrogate (approximate) computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Nabil M. Atallah , Claudio Canuto , Guglielmo Scovazzi

In this work we consider topology optimization of systems, which are governed by the external Bernoulli free boundary problem. We utilize the so-called pseudo-solid approach to solve the governing free boundary problems during the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 J. I. Toivanen , R. A. E. Makinen , J. Haslinger

The paper deals with the Stokes problem, associated with a flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a spatially periodic profile cascade. We use results from [32] (the maximum regularity property in the $L^2$-framework) and [33] (the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Tomáš Neustupa

The Immersed Boundary method has evolved into one of the most useful computational methods in studying fluid structure interaction. On the other hand, the Immersed Boundary method is also known to suffer from a severe timestep stability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Thomas Y. Hou , Zuoqiang Shi