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The flow near a moving contact line is primarily governed by three key parameters: viscosity ratio, dynamic contact angle, and inertia. While the behavior of dynamic contact angles has been extensively studied in earlier experimental and…

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A fully coupled implicit finite-volume algorithm for incompressible viscoelastic interfacial flows is proposed, whereby the viscoelasticity of the flow is described by an upper-convected Maxwell constitutive model, including limited…

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The paper proposes a physically consistent numerical discretization approach for simulating viscous compressible multicomponent flows. It has two main contributions. First, a contact discontinuity (and material interface) detector is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Suhas S. Jain , Michael C. Adler , Jacob R. West , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin , Sanjiva K. Lele

The moment-of-fluid (MOF) method is an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). By minimizing the least square error of the centroid of the cutting polyhedron, the MOF method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Zhouteng Ye , Mark Sussman , Yi Zhan , Xizeng Zhao

Active Flux is a modified Finite Volume method that evolves additional Degrees of Freedom for each cell that are located on the interface by a non-conservative method to compute high-order approximations to the numerical fluxes through the…

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We present a characterization of the forcing and the sub-filter scale terms produced in the volume-filtering immersed boundary (VF-IB) method by Dave et al, JCP, 2023. The process of volume-filtering produces bodyforces in the form of…

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Understanding the flow of deformable particles such as liquid drops, synthetic capsules and vesicles, and biological cells confined in a small channel is essential to a wide range of potential chemical and biomedical engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 J. M. Lyu , Paul G. Chen , G. Boedec , M. Leonetti , M. Jaeger

This paper investigates an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes, employing the CutFEM method. The main contribution is the a posteriori error analysis based on equilibrated fluxes belonging…

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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…

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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…

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In this article we present a novel staggered semi-implicit hybrid finite-volume/finite-element (FV/FE) method for the resolution of weakly compressible flows in two and three space dimensions. The pressure-based methodology introduced in…

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Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) can be investigated by means of non-linear Finite Element Models (FEM), suitable to capture large deflections of structural parts interacting with fluids, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). High…

Granular flow problems characterized by large deformations are widespread in various applications, including coastal and geotechnical engineering. The paper deals with the application of a rigid-perfectly plastic two-phase model extended by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-02 Wibke Düsterhöft-Wriggers , Svenja Schubert , Thomas Rung

The immersed interface method (IIM) for fluid-structure interaction imposes discontinuities in the fluid stress along immersed boundaries that are generated by forces concentrated along those boundaries. For a viscous incompressible fluid,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

Robust, broadly applicable fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithms remain a challenge for computational mechanics. In previous work, we introduced an immersed interface method (IIM) for discrete surfaces and an extension based on an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Qi Sun , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

We present a novel computational modeling framework to numerically investigate fluid-structure interaction in viscous fluids using the phase field embedding method. Each rigid body or elastic structure immersed in the incompressible viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-16 Qi Hong , Qi Wang

In this study, we develop computational models and methodology for accurate multi-component-flow simulation in under-resolved multi-scale porous structures. It is generally impractical to fully resolve the flow in porous structures with…