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The high Weissenberg number problem has been a persistent challenge in the numerical simulation of viscoelastic fluid flows. This paper presents an improved lattice Boltzmann method for solving viscoelastic flow problems at high Weissenberg…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 Yuan Yu , Siwei Chen , Lei Wang , Hai-zhuan Yuan , Shi Shu

A linear stability analysis of an elastic surface immersed in a viscous fluid is presented. The coupled system is modeled using the method of regularized Stokeslets (MRS), a Lagrangian method for simulating fluid-structure interaction at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-10 Dana Ferranti , Sarah D. Olson

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

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

We present a moving control volume (CV) approach to computing hydrodynamic forces and torques on complex geometries. The method requires surface and volumetric integrals over a simple and regular Cartesian box that moves with an arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nishant Nangia , Hans Johansen , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

A numerical framework for rigorous linear stability analysis of two-phase stratified flows of two immiscible fluids in horizontal circular pipes is presented. For the first time, three-dimensional disturbances, including those at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ilya Barmak , Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

We derive and analyze well-posed, energy- and entropy-stable boundary conditions (BCs) for the two-dimensional linear and nonlinear rotating shallow water equations (RSWE) in vector invariant form. The focus of the study is on subcritical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Kenneth Duru , Chuqiao Xu

An extended volume of fluid method is developed for two-phase direct numerical simulations of systems with one viscoelastic and one Newtonian phase. A complete set of governing equations is derived by conditional volume-averaging of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Günter Brenn , Holger Marschall , Dieter Bothe

We derive new boundary conditions and implementation procedures for nonlinear initial boundary value problems (IBVPs) with non-zero boundary data that lead to bounded solutions. The new boundary procedure is applied to nonlinear IBVPs in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Jan Nordström

We present a simple modification of the direct-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) proposed by Uhlmann [J. Comput. Phys, 2005] in order to enable it to be applied to particulate flows with solid-to-fluid density ratios around unity. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Manuel Garcia-Villalba , Blanca Fuentes , Jan Dusek , Manuel Moriche , Markus Uhlmann

In this work, we present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase Navier-Stokes flow with viscoelasticity. The free boundary problem is given by the viscoelastic Navier-Stokes equations in the two fluid phases, connected by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Dennis Trautwein

In the finite element analysis with fast decoupled time integration scheme for viscoelastic fluid (the Leonov model) flow, we investigate strong nonlinear behavior in 2D creeping contraction flow. The algorithm is applicable in the whole…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-02 Youngdon Kwon

We propose numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluids based on a hybrid algorithm combining Lattice-Boltzmann models (LBM) and Finite Differences (FD) schemes, the former used to model the macroscopic hydrodynamic equations, and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 A. Gupta , M. Sbragaglia , A. Scagliarini

The paper develops a method for the numerical simulation of a free-surface flow of incompressible viscous fluid around a streamlined body. The body is a rigid stationary construction partially submerged in the fluid. The application we are…

In this paper, we discuss whether the instability of viscoelastic flow around a circular cylinder is subcritical or supercritical by numerical simulation. The Oldroyd-B model is selected to describe the viscoelastic constitutive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-02 Sai Peng , Jia-yu Li , Xin-hui Si , Xiao-yang Xu , Peng Yu

Dirac-delta distributions are often crucial components of the solid-fluid coupling operators in immersed solution methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. This is certainly so for methods like the Immersed Boundary Method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Luca Heltai , Francesco Costanzo

This paper aims to simulate viscoplastic flow in a shallow-water regime. We specifically use the Bingham model in which the material behaves as a solid if the stress is below a certain threshold, otherwise, it moves as a fluid. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Felipe Fernández , Sofía López-Ordóñez , Sergio González-Andrade

Viscoelastic surface rheology plays an important role in multiphase systems. A typical example is the actin cortex which surrounds most animal cells. It shows elastic properties for short time scales and behaves viscous for longer time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-01 Eloy de Kinkelder , Leonard Sagis , Sebastian Aland

The development of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) software involves trade-offs between ease of use, generality, performance, and cost. Typically there are large learning curves when using low-level software to model the interaction of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-24 Nicholas A. Battista , W. Christopher Strickland , Laura A. Miller