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Using a fixed Eulerian mesh, the phase-field method has been successfully utilized for a broad range of moving boundary problems involving multiphase fluids and single-phase fluid-structure interaction. Nevertheless, multiphase fluids…

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In this paper, we develop a novel phase-field model for fluid-structure interaction (FSI), that is capable to handle very large deformations as well as topology changes like contact of the solid to the domain boundary. The model is based on…

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Mechanical contact between solids is almost exclusively modeled in Lagrangian frameworks. While these frameworks have been developed extensively and applied successfully to numerous contact problems, they generally require complex…

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We introduce an Eulerian approach for problems involving one or more soft solids immersed in a fluid, which permits mechanical interactions between all phases. The reference map variable is exploited to simulate finite-deformation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Boris Valkov , Chris H. Rycroft , Ken Kamrin

Recent advancements have demonstrated that fully Eulerian methods can effectively model frictionless contact between deformable solids. Unlike traditional Lagrangian approaches, which require contact detection and resolution algorithms, the…

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The present work proposes an approach for fluid-solid and contact interaction problems including thermo-mechanical coupling and reversible phase transitions. The solid field is assumed to consist of several arbitrarily-shaped, undeformable…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sebastian L. Fuchs , Christoph Meier , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christian J. Cyron

In this paper, we present a novel interface-driven adaptive variational procedure using a fully Eulerian description of fluid-structure interaction. The proposed fully-Eulerian procedure involves a fixed background unstructured mesh on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Biswajeet Rath , Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev K. Jaiman

This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tim Wallis , Philip Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

We developed a computational framework for simulating thin fluid flow in narrow interfaces between contacting solids, which is relevant for a range of engineering, biological and geophysical applications. The treatment of this problem…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Andrei G. Shvarts , Julien Vignollet , Vladislav A. Yastrebov

We present a fully Eulerian hybrid immersed-boundary/phase-field model to simulate wetting and contact line motion over any arbitrary geometry. The solid wall is described with a volume-penalisation ghost-cell immersed boundary whereas the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Armin Shahmardi , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

We develop a three-dimensional Eulerian framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems on a fixed Cartesian grid using the geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. The coupled problem involves incompressible flow and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-30 Soham Prajapati , Ali Fakhreddine , Krishnan Mahesh

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

Frictional sliding contact in hydrodynamic environments can be found in a range of engineering applications. Accurate modeling requires an integrated numerical framework capable of resolving large relative motions, multiphase interactions,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Biswajeet Rath , Rajeev K. Jaiman

We propose a novel three-way coupling method to model the contact interaction between solid and fluid driven by strong surface tension. At the heart of our physical model is a thin liquid membrane that simultaneously couples to both the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 Liangwang Ruan , Jinyuan Liu , Bo Zhu , Shinjiro Sueda , Bin Wang , Baoquan Chen

We propose a numerical methodology for the numerical simulation of distinct, interacting physical processes described by a combination of compressible, inert and reactive forms of the Euler equations, multiphase equations and elastoplastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Louisa Michael , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

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

A novel method for complex fluid-structure interaction (FSI) involving large structural deformation and motion is proposed. The new approach is based on a hybrid fluid formulation that combines the advantages of purely Eulerian (fixed-grid)…

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We describe a general phase-field model for hyperelastic multiphase materials. The model features an elastic energy functional that depends on the phase-field variable and a surface energy term that depends in turn on the elastic…

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In the previous work, Zhang et al. proposed a multi-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for fluid-structure interactions (FSI) with achieving an optimized computational efficiency meanwhile maintaining good numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Chi Zhang , Yujie Zhu , Xiangyu Hu

A unified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework is proposed to simulate interaction dynamics involving thin shells modeled by a reduced-dimensional, single-layer particle discretization, as opposed to full-dimensional SPH solids.…

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