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A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…
This paper presents an approach to enhance volume conservation in the immersed boundary (IB) method by using regularized delta functions derived from composite B-splines. The conventional IB method, while effective for fluid-structure…
We present a strongly-coupled immersed-boundary method for flow-structure interaction problems involving thin deforming bodies. The method is stable for arbitrary choices of solid-to-fluid mass ratios and for large body motions. As with…
A volume penalization-based immersed boundary technique is developed and thoroughly validated for fluid flow problems, specifically flow over bluff bodies. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in an Open Source Field Operation and…
Motivated by variational models in continuum mechanics, we introduce a novel algorithm to perform nonsmooth and nonconvex minimizations with linear constraints in Euclidean spaces. We show how this algorithm is actually a natural…
This paper presents a new boundary integral equation (BIE) method for simulating particulate and multiphase flows through periodic channels of arbitrary smooth shape in two dimensions. The authors consider a particular system---multiple…
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Numerical simulation is indispensable in industrial design processes. It can replace expensive experiments and even reduce the need for prototypes. While products designed with the aid of numerical simulation undergo continuous improvement,…
We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…
Scale-resolving simulations of high Reynolds number incompressible flows are often limited by the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability restriction imposed by explicit time-stepping schemes, resulting in small time step sizes and long…
This paper presents a general and robust method for the fluid-structure interaction of membranes and shells undergoing large displacement and large added-mass effects by coupling an immersed-boundary method with a shell finite-element…
A non-singular formulation of the boundary integral method (BIM) is presented for the Laplace equation whereby the well-known singularities that arise from the fundamental solution are eliminated analytically. A key advantage of this…
We present a fast and accurate algorithm to solve Poisson problems in complex geometries, using regular Cartesian grids. We consider a variety of configurations, including Poisson problems with interfaces across which the solution is…
In this paper, we propose improved wall-treatment strategies for meshfree methods applied to turbulent flows. The goal is to enhance wall-function handling in simulations of high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows and to understand the…
The immersed boundary method is a mathematical framework for modeling fluid-structure interaction. This formulation describes the momentum, viscosity, and incompressibility of the fluid-structure system in Eulerian form, and it uses…
The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has shown its promising capability in simulating microscale gas flows. However, the suitable boundary condition is still one of the critical issues for the LBM to model microgaseous flows involving curved…
This paper presents an immersed boundary (IB) method for fluid--structure--acoustics interactions involving large deformations and complex geometries. In this method, the fluid dynamics is solved by a finite difference method where the…
We develop a universally applicable embedded boundary finite difference method, which results in a symmetric positive definite linear system and does not suffer from small cell stiffness. Our discretization is efficient for the wave, heat…
The manuscript describes a quadrature rule that is designed for the high order discretization of boundary integral equations (BIEs) using the Nystr\"{o}m method. The technique is designed for surfaces that can naturally be parameterized…
Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. In this paper, a novel boundary integral formulation is proposed and its highly accurate…