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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

We present a simple modification of the direct-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) proposed by Uhlmann [J. Comput. Phys, 2005] in order to enable it to be applied to particulate flows with solid-to-fluid density ratios around unity. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Manuel Garcia-Villalba , Blanca Fuentes , Jan Dusek , Manuel Moriche , Markus Uhlmann

In this paper, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) proposed by Pinelli is implemented for finite volume approximations of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations solutions in the open source toolbox OpenFOAM version 2.2. Solid obstacles are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-15 E. Constant , C. Li , J. Favier , M. Meldi , P. Meliga , E. Serre

The immersed boundary (IB) method has been used as a means to simulate fluid-membrane interactions in a wide variety of biological and engineering applications. Although the numerical convergence of the method has been empirically verified,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexandre X. Milewski , Charles S. Peskin

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

It is well known that the number of particles should be scaled up to enable industrial scale simulation. The calculations are more computationally intensive when the motion of the surrounding fluid is considered. Besides the advances in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Hao Zhang , F. Xavier Trias , Assensi Oliva , Dongmin Yang , Yuanqiang Tan , Shi Shu , Yong Sheng

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

In the present study, a discrete forcing Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed for the numerical simulation of high-speed flow problems including heat exchange. The flow field is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Hamza Riahi , Eric Goncalves , Marcello Meldi

Strongly coupled immersed boundary (IB) methods solve the nonlinear fluid and structural equations of motion simultaneously for strongly enforcing the no-slip constraint on the body. Handling this constraint requires solving several large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-12 Nirmal Jayaprasad Nair , Andres Goza

This work presents a robust and efficient sharp interface immersed boundary (IBM) framework, which is applicable for all-speed flow regimes and is capable of handling arbitrarily complex bodies (stationary or moving). The work deploys an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Pradeep Kumar Seshadri , Ashoke De

We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

We analyze the consolidation of freshly deposited cohesive and non-cohesive sediment by means of particle-resolved direct Navier-Stokes simulations based on the Immersed Boundary Method. The computational model is parameterized by material…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-09 Bernhard Vowinckel , Edward Biegert , Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz , Eckart Meiburg

We present a collocated-grid framework for Direct Numerical Simulations of polydisperse particles submerged in a viscous fluid. The fluid-particle forces are coupled with the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) while the particle-particle forces…

The immersed boundary method is a mathematical formulation and numerical method for solving fluid-structure interaction problems. For many biological problems, such as models that include the cell membrane, the immersed structure is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Ondrej Maxian , Andrew T. Kassen , Wanda Strychalski

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

We present a novel framework inspired by the Immersed Boundary Method for predicting the fluid-structure interaction of complex structures immersed in flows with moderate to high Reynolds numbers. The main novelties of the proposed…

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is one of the popular one-fluid mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian methods to simulate motion of droplets. While the treatment of a moving complex boundary is an extremely time consuming and formidable task in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Chia Rui Ong , Hiroaki Miura

Accurate and efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems remains a central challenge in computational physics. High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer low numerical errors and excellent scalability on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yingjie Xia , Stefano Colombo , David Huergo , Jiaqing Kou , Yuting Dai , Esteban Ferrer

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) solver for numerically solving incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. Particular emphasis is given to internal flows with complex geometries (blood flow in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 G. C. Bourantas , D. L. Lampropoulos , B. F. Zwick , V. C. Loukopoulos , A. Wittek , K. Miller

This paper sums up some recent validations of an immersed boundary method for compressible flow simulations. It has been already shown that this method is able to provide accurate results without meshing effort around more or less complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Thomas Renaud , Christophe Benoit , Stephanie Péron , Ivan Mary , Nicolas Alferez
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