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Surface growth, i.e., the addition or removal of mass from the boundary of a solid body, occurs in a wide range of processes, including the growth of biological tissues, solidification and melting, and additive manufacturing. To understand…
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We develop a computational method based on an Eulerian field called the "reference map", which relates the current location of a material point to its initial. The reference map can be discretized to permit finite-difference simulation of…
We propose a robust simulation method for phospholipid membranes. It is based on a mixed three-field formulation that accounts for tangential fluidity (Boussinesq-Scriven law), bending elasticity (Canham-Helfrich model) and inextensibility.…
In this paper, we propose a stabilised finite element method for the numerical solution of contact between a small deformation elastic membrane and a rigid obstacle. We limit ourselves to friction--free contact, but the formulation is…
A geometrically exact membrane formulation is presented that is based on curvilinear coordinates and isogeometric finite elements, and is suitable for both solid and liquid membranes. The curvilinear coordinate system is used to describe…
In this paper, we present a novel second-order accurate Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) finite volume scheme on moving nonconforming polygonal grids, in order to avoid the typical mesh distortion caused by shear flows in Lagrangian-type…
We studied numerically the dynamics of colliding rigid bodies in a Newtonian fluid. The finite element method is used to solve the fluid-body interaction and the fluid motion is described in the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian framework. To…
The surge of activity in the resolution of fine scale features in the field of earth sciences over the past decade necessitates the development of robust yet simple algorithms that can tackle the various drawbacks of in silico models…
A new formulation of the immersed boundary method, which facilitates accurate simulation of incompressible isothermal and natural convection flows around immersed bodies and which may be applied for accurate linear stability analysis of the…
We present Monte Carlo simulations of an ultra coarse-grained lipid bilayer with different number of lipids on both leaflets. In the simulations, we employ a new method for measuring the elastic parameters of the membrane, including the…
A new Lagrangian particle method for solving Euler equations for compressible inviscid fluid or gas flows is proposed. Similar to smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), the method represents fluid cells with Lagrangian particles and is…
We introduce a new formulation for the finite element immersed boundary method which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier. We prove that a full discretization of our model, based on a semi-implicit time advancing scheme, is…
We present a velocity-based moving mesh virtual element method for the numerical solution of PDEs involving moving boundaries. The virtual element method is used for computing both the mesh velocity and a conservative Arbitrary…
The problem of multiphase materials (fluid or solid) interacting with the rigid body structure is studied by proposing a novel VMS-FEM (variational multi-scale finite element method) in the Eulerian framework using the fixed mesh. The…
A computational approach is introduced for the study of the rheological properties of complex fluids and soft materials. The approach allows for a consistent treatment of microstructure elastic mechanics, hydrodynamic coupling, thermal…
A Galerkin finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on a meshed surface is constructed by using two-dimensional elements extended into three dimensions. The membrane finite element model is established using the intrinsic…
A conservative invariant domain preserving Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic systems is introduced. The method is explicit in time, works with continuous finite elements and is first-order accurate in…
We investigate novel fitted finite element approximations for two-phase Navier--Stokes flow. In particular, we consider both Eulerian and Arbitrary Lagrangian--Eulerian (ALE) finite element formulations. The moving interface is approximated…
A variety of models for the membrane-mediated interaction of particles in lipid membranes, mostly well-established in theoretical physics, is reviewed from a mathematical perspective. We provide mathematically consistent formulations in a…