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The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a widely-used numerical methodology for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems. The IB method utilizes an Eulerian discretization for the fluid equations of motion while maintaining a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Aaron L. Fogelson , R. M. Kirby

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) method for internal flow problems with complex geometries (e.g., blood flow in the vascular system). In this study, we use a voxelized flow domain (discretized…

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 propose an enhanced wall-boundary treatment for the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), designed for high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows on adaptively refined Cartesian grids. The method improves the slip-velocity bounce-back scheme by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jorge Ponsin , Carlos Lozano

A numerical method for simulation of bubble dynamics in three-dimensional potential flows is presented. The approach is based on the boundary element method for the Laplace equation accelerated via the fast multipole method implemented on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Nail A. Gumerov , Yulia A. Pityuk , Olga A. Abramova , Iskander S. Akhatov

We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

Non-orthogonality errors in unstructured Finite Volume methods for simulating incompressible two-phase flows may break the force-balanced discretization. We show that applying the same explicit non-orthogonality correction for all gradient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Jun Liu , Tobias Tolle , Tomislav Maric

In this paper, we investigate the effect of boundary surface roughness on numerical simulations of incompressible fluid flow past a cylinder in two and three spatial dimensions furnished with slip boundary conditions. The governing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-05 Matthias Maier , Peter Munch , Murtazo Nazarov

In this work, we develop a neural-physics solver based on finite volume method (FVM), namely NeuralFVM, for turbulent flows by implementing the standard $k$-$\omega$ model designed for efficient Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) execution. The…

Simulating the interaction of fluids with immersed moving solids is playing an important role for gaining a better quantitative understanding of how fluid dynamics is altered by the presence of obstacles and which forces are exerted on the…

This paper presents a generalised and efficient wall boundary treatment in the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for 3-D complex and arbitrary geometries with single- and multi-phase flows to be executed on graphics processing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Massoud Rezavand , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

To predict liquid-gas two-phase flow phenomena, accurate tracking and prediction of the evolving liquid-gas interface is required. Volume-of-Fluid or VoF method has been used in the literature for computationally modeling of such flows. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-05 Sucharitha Rajendran , Raj M Manglik , Milind A Jog

A computational technique has been developed to perform compressible flow simulations involving moving boundaries using an embedded boundary approach within the block-structured adaptive mesh refinement framework of AMReX. A conservative,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Mahesh Natarajan , Ray Grout , Weiqun Zhang , Marc Day

Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ricardo Costa , Stéphane Clain , Gaspar J. Machado , João M. Nóbrega

A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split Volume-of-Fluid method generalized for a non-divergence-free liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jordi Poblador-Ibanez , William A. Sirignano

This work primarily focuses on the study of three gradient reconstruction techniques applied to the calculation of viscous terms in a cell-centered, finite volume formulation for general unstructured grids. The work also addresses different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-13 Frederico Bolsoni Oliveira , João Luiz F. Azevedo

For simulating incompressible flows by projection methods. it is generally accepted that the pressure-correction stage is the most time-consuming part of the flow solver. The objective of the present work is to develop a fast hybrid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-05 Jiannong Fang

This paper introduces a Particle Flow Map Level Set (PFM-LS) method for high-fidelity interface tracking. We store level-set values, gradients, and Hessians on particles concentrated in a narrow band around the interface, advecting them via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Jinjin He , Taiyuan Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Junwei Zhou , Duowen Chen , Bo Zhu

The direct-forcing immersed boundary method (DF-IBM) algorithm previously developed by the authors is extended by coupling the Navier-Stokes equations with the Newton-Euler equations for rigid body dynamics within the DF-IBM framework. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 E. Farah , A. Ouahsine , P. G. Verdin , B. Kaoui

Two finite volume methods are derived and applied to the solution of problems of incompressible flow. In particular, external inviscid flows and boundary-layer flows are examined. The firstmethod analyzed is a cell-centered finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Darryl Whitlow