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The immersed boundary-finite element method (IBFE) is an approach to describing the dynamics of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this formulation, there are discontinuities in the pressure and viscous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Charles Puelz , Boyce E. Griffith

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is a popular numerical approach to impose boundary conditions without relying on body-fitted grids, thus reducing the costly effort of mesh generation. To obtain enhanced accuracy, IBM can be combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Victor J. Llorente , Jiaqing Kou , Eusebio Valero , Esteban Ferrer

The interpolated bounce-back scheme and the immersed boundary method are the two most popular algorithms in treating a no-slip boundary on curved surfaces in the lattice Boltzmann method. While those algorithms are frequently implemented in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Cheng Peng , Orlando M. Ayala , Lian-Ping Wang

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

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

In the present paper, a fluid-particle coupling method is directly derived from the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) by applying the concept of volume-filtering, yielding a physically consistent methodology to incorporate solid wall boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-17 Max Hausmann , Hani Elmestikawy , Berend van Wachem

An immersed-boundary (IB) method is proposed and applied in the gas-kinetic BGK scheme to simulate incompressible/compressible viscous flow with stationary/moving boundary. In present method the ghost-cell technique is adopted to fulfill…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Ruifeng Yuan , Chengwen Zhong

This paper introduces a novel approach to compute the numerical fluxes at the cell boundaries in the finite volume approach. Explicit gradients used in deriving the reconstruction polynomials are replaced by high-order gradients computed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi , Steven H. Frankel , Abhishek Chintagunta

This paper presents eigensolution and non-modal analyses for immersed boundary methods (IBMs) based on volume penalization for the linear advection equation. This approach is used to analyze the behavior of flux reconstruction (FR)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Jiaqing Kou , Aurelio Hurtado-de-Mendoza , Saumitra Joshi , Soledad Le Clainche , Esteban Ferrer

We present a novel immersed boundary method that implements acoustic perturbation theory to model an acoustically levitated droplet. Instead of resolving sound waves numerically, our hybrid method solves acoustic scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-22 Jacqueline B. Sustiel , David G. Grier

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

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a mathematical and numerical framework for problems of fluid-structure interaction, treating the particular case in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. The IB…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Boyce E. Griffith

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

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Ben Vadala-Roth , Shashank Acharya , Neelesh A Patankar , Simone Rossi , Boyce E Griffith

The computational cost of the boundary-condition-enforced immersed boundary method (IBM) increases in the order of $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ as the number of Lagrangian points, $N$, increases. This is due to the time-consuming calculation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-25 Manabu Saito , Ryoichi Kurose

The immersed boundary method (IB) is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas Battista , Christopher Strickland , Aaron Barrett , Laura Miller

The hybrid wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) and immersed boundary (IB) method offers significant flexibility for simulating high Reynolds number flows involving complex boundaries. However, the approximate boundary conditions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-30 Zhideng Zhou , Fengshun Zhang , Xiaolei Yang

The concept of trimming, embedding, or immersing geometries into a computational background mesh has gained considerable attention in recent years, particularly in isogeometric analysis (IGA). In this approach, the physical domain is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Christoph Hollweck , Andrea Gorgi , Nicolo Antonelli , Marcus Wagner , Roland Wüchner

We present a fluctuating boundary integral method (FBIM) for overdamped Brownian Dynamics (BD) of two-dimensional periodic suspensions of rigid particles of complex shape immersed in a Stokes fluid. We develop a novel approach for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Yuanxun Bao , Manas Rachh , Eric Keaveny , Leslie Greengard , Aleksandar Donev