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Many physical systems of interest involve the close interaction of a flow in a domain with complex, time-varying boundaries. Treatment of boundaries of this nature is cumbersome due to the difficulty in explicitly tracking boundaries that…
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…
An approach is presented for implicit time integration in computations of red blood cell flow by a spectral boundary integral method. The flow of a red cell in ambient fluid is represented as a boundary integral equation (BIE), whose…
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We propose a novel cut finite element method for the numerical solution of the Biot system of poroelasticity. The Biot system couples elastic deformation of a porous solid with viscous fluid flow and commonly arises on domains with complex…