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We consider two-level finite element discretization methods for the stream function formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. The two-level method consists of solving a small nonlinear system on the coarse mesh, then solving a linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Faisal Fairag

We develop an embedded boundary method (EBM) to solve the two-phase incompressible flow with piecewise constant density. The front tracking method is used to track the interface. The fractional step methods are used to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Shuqiang Wang , James Glimm , Roman Samulyak , Xiangmin Jiao , Chenzhe Diao

In this paper, a new algorithm based on differential geometry viewpoint to solve the 3D rotating Navier-Stokes equations with complex Boundary is proposed, which is called Bi-parallel algorithm. For xample, it can be applied to passage flow…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Kaitai Li , Demin Liu

We outline a 2D algorithm for solving incompressible flow--structure interaction problems for mixed rigid/soft body representations, within a consistent framework based on the remeshed vortex method. We adopt the one--continuum formulation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Yashraj Bhosale , Tejaswin Parthasarathy , Mattia Gazzola

We consider an energy-based boundary condition to impose an equilibrium wetting angle for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase-field model on voxel-set-type computational domains. These domains typically stem from the micro-CT imaging of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-17 Florian Frank , Chen Liu , Alessio Scanziani , Faruk O. Alpak , Beatrice Riviere

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

From extensive molecular dynamics simulations on immiscible two-phase flows, we find the relative slipping between the fluids and the solid wall everywhere to follow the generalized Navier boundary condition, in which the amount of slipping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

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 consider a classical (capillary) model for a one-phase liquid in equilibrium. The liquid (e.g. water) is subject to a volume constraint, it does not mix with the surrounding vapour (e.g. air), it may come into contact with solid supports…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Costante Bellettini

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…

Over the past decades, the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method has been the method of choice for simulating atomization processes, owing to its unique ability to discretely conserve mass. Current state-of-the-art VOF methods, however, rely on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Fabien Evrard , Robert Chiodi , Berend van Wachem , Olivier Desjardins

Controlling the shape and position of moving and pinned droplets on a solid surface is an important feature often found in microfluidic applications. However, automating them, e.g., for high-throughput applications, does rarely involve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-09 Henning Bonart , Christian Kahle , Jens-Uwe Repke

A novel volume of fluid model (VoF) called explicit volume diffusion (EVD) is developed for the simulation of interfacial flows, including those with turbulence and primary spray atomisation. The EVD model is derived by volume averaging the…

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Dispersion of low-density rigid particles with complex geometries is ubiquitous in both natural and industrial environments. We show that while explicit methods for coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Newton's equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Uǧis Lācis , Kunihiko Taira , Shervin Bagheri

We propose a novel solid-fluid interaction method for coupling elastic solids with impulse flow maps. Our key idea is to unify the representation of fluid and solid components as particle flow maps with different lengths and dynamics. The…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Duowen Chen , Zhiqi Li , Junwei Zhou , Fan Feng , Tao Du , Bo Zhu

Currently, Eulerian flow solvers are very efficient in accurately resolving flow structures near solid boundaries. On the other hand, they tend to be diffusive and to dampen high-intensity vortical structures after a short distance away…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Artur Palha , Lento Manickathan , Carlos Simao Ferreira , Gerard van Bussel

We propose a model for the coupling of flow and transport equations with porous membrane-type conditions on part of the boundary. The governing equations consist of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations coupled with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Arbaz Khan , David Mora , Ricardo Ruíz-Baier , Jesus Vellojin

Multicomponent vesicles suspended in viscoelastic fluids are crucial for understanding a variety of physiological processes. In this work, we develop a continuum surface force (CSF) phase-field model to investigate the hydrodynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Zuowei Wen , Navid Valizadeh , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

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…

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