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The displacement of a fluid by another less viscous one in a quasi-two dimensional geometry typically leads to complex fingering patterns. In an isotropic system, dense-branching growth arises, which is characterized by repeated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Qing Zhang , Amin Amooie , Martin Z. Bazant , Irmgard Bischofberger

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been increasingly used to study fluid problems in recent years; but its computational cost can be high if high resolution is required. In this study, an adaptive resolution method based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong

This work presents a stabilized finite element formulation of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) surface theory for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving manifolds developed in Sauer (2025). The formulation is physically frame-invariant,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-08 Roger A. Sauer

We study the fluid-mediated approach of a deformable axisymmetric object towards a rigid substrate, focusing on how its shape influences contact formation. For low approach velocities and large Stokes numbers, we show that sharper profiles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Joaquin Garcia-Suarez

A new consistent, spatially adaptive, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) is presented. The method combines several attributes that have not been simultaneously satisfied by other SPH methods.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Wei Hu , Guannan Guo , Xiaozhe Hu , Dan Negrut , Zhijie Xu , Wenxiao Pan

In this paper, we propose an approach for solving PDEs on evolving surfaces using a combination of the trace finite element method and a fast marching method. The numerical approach is based on the Eulerian description of the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

We formulate a method for computing Stokes flow past a highly deformed sphere with arbitrarily defined surface velocity. The fundamental ingredient is an explicit extrapolation operator extending a velocity field from the surface of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-25 Amir Nourhani , Paul E. Lammert

A weighted residual collocation methodology for simulating two-dimensional shear-driven and natural convection flows has been presented. Using a dyadic mesh refinement, the methodology generates a basis and a multiresolution scheme to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-23 Jahrul Alam , Raymond Walsh , Alamgir Hossain , Andrew Rose

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

Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ricardo Costa , Stéphane Clain , Gaspar J. Machado , João M. Nóbrega

Elastic flow for closed curves can involve significant deformations. Mesh-based approximation schemes require tangentially redistributing vertices for long-time computations. We present and analyze a method that uses the Dirichlet energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Paola Pozzi , Björn Stinner

We utilize generalized moving least squares (GMLS) to develop meshfree techniques for discretizing hydrodynamic flow problems on manifolds. We use exterior calculus to formulate incompressible hydrodynamic equations in the Stokesian regime…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 B. J. Gross , N. Trask , P. Kuberry , P. J. Atzberger

The mechanical properties of a thin, planar material, perfused by an embedded flow network, can be changed locally and globally by the fluid transport and storage, resulting in small or large-scale deformation, such as out-of-plane…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-15 Yongtian Luo , Che-Ling Ho , Brent R. Helliker , Eleni Katifori

A three-dimensional SPH computational framework is presented for modeling fluid-structure interactions with structural deformation and failure. We combine weakly compressible SPH with a pseudo-spring-based SPH solver to capture the fluid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Vishabjeet Singh , Chong Peng , Md Rushdie Ibne Islam

This paper presents a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluid dynamics. The numerical scheme is obtained by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Werner Bauer , François Gay-Balmaz

We consider the impact of surface hydrodynamics on the interplay between curvature and composition in coarsening processes on model systems for biomembranes. This includes scaling laws and equilibrium configurations, which are investigated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-19 Elena Bachini , Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

This paper addresses the problem of dynamic scene surface reconstruction using Gaussian Splatting (GS), aiming to recover temporally consistent geometry. While existing GS-based dynamic surface reconstruction methods can yield superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Renjie Wu , Hongdong Li , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Calculating by analytical theory the deformation of finite-sized elastic bodies in response to internally applied forces is a challenge. Here, we derive explicit analytical expressions for the amplitudes of modes of surface deformation of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Lukas Fischer , Andreas M. Menzel

Modeling arbitrarily large deformations of surfaces smoothly embedded in three-dimensional space is challenging. The difficulties come from two aspects: the existing geometry processing or forward simulation methods penalize the difference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Jiahao Wen , Bohan Wang , Jernej Barbič

Surfactant self-assembly at solid-liquid interfaces governs interfacial stability, transport, and reactivity across many technologies, yet resolving interfacial surfactant phases and their transition kinetics in situ remains challenging.…