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We present a volume penalization technique for simulating acoustically-actuated flows in geometrically complex microchannels. Using a perturbation approach, the nonlinear response of an acoustically-actuated compressible Newtonian fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Khemraj Gautam Kshetri , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Nitesh Nama

This study proposes a novel adaptive finite volume-particle method (AFVPM) for accurate and efficient free surface flow simulations. The proposed AFVPM synergistically combines the Eulerian finite volume method (FVM) on unstructured meshes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Jiawang Zhang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

The distribution of forces on the surface of complex, deforming geometries is an invaluable output of flow simulations. One particular example of such geometries involves self-propelled swimmers. Surface forces can provide significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-25 Siddhartha Verma , Gabriele Abbati , Guido Novati , Petros Koumoutsakos

We present the implementation and validation of an immersed boundary volume penalization method in the computational fluid dynamics solver CODA (from ONERA, DLR, and Airbus). Our goal is to model and simulate turbulent fluid flows in…

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

We present and analyze a penalization method wich extends the the method of [1] to the case of a rigid body moving freely in an incompressible fluid. The fluid-solid system is viewed as a single variable density flow with an interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-15 Claire Bost , Georges-Henri Cottet , Emmanuel Maitre

We present a computational framework for modeling large-scale particle-laden flows in complex domains with the goal of enabling simulations in medical-image derived patient specific geometries. The framework is based on a volume-filtered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Abhilash Reddy Malipeddi , C. Alberto Figueroa , Jesse Capecelatro

A penalization method for a suitable reformulation of the governing equations as a constrained optimization problem provides accurate numerical simulations for large-amplitude travelling water waves in irrotational flows and in flows with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-12 Adrian Constantin , Konstantinos Kalimeris , Otmar Scherzer

The vortex particle method (VPM) is a mesh-free approach to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solving the Navier-Stokes equations in their velocity-vorticity form. The VPM uses a Lagrangian scheme, which not only avoids the hurdles of mesh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-30 Eduardo J. Alvarez , Andrew Ning

Simulating the interaction of fluids with immersed moving solids is playing an important role for gaining a better quantitative understanding of how fluid dynamics is altered by the presence of obstacles and which forces are exerted on the…

In the present paper, we apply the framework of volume-filtering for particle-laden flows, to large eddy simulations (LES) of wall-bounded flows leading to a new perspective on wall-modeled LES (WMLES) that we refer to as volume-filtered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-29 Max Hausmann , Berend van Wachem

This work presents a novel numerical investigation of the dynamics of free-boundary flows of viscoelastic liquid membranes. The governing equation describes the balance of linear momentum, in which the stresses include the viscoelastic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-12 Valeria Barra , Shawn A. Chester , Shahriar Afkhami

The majority of available numerical algorithms for interfacial two-phase flows either treat both fluid phases as incompressible (constant density) or treat both phases as compressible (variable density). This presents a limitation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Fabian Denner , Berend van Wachem

The free surface lattice Boltzmann method (FSLBM) is a combination of the hydrodynamic lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with a volume of fluid (VOF) interface apturing technique for the simulation of incompressible free surface flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-25 Simon Bogner , Ulrich Rüde , Jens Harting

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee

In this work, based on the moving-least-squares immersed boundary method, we proposed a new technique to improve the calculation of the volume force representing the body boundary. For boundary with simple geometry, we theoretically analyse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Wenyuan Chen , Shufan Zou , Qingdong Cai , Yantao Yang

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

Modeling and direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows have a tremendous variety of applications in science and engineering across a vast spectrum of scales from pollution dispersion in the atmosphere, to fluidization in the…

This work develops advanced numerical methods for free-surface simulations of polymer mixing processes, integrating a Volume of Fluid (VOF) interface-capturing approach with a non-conforming Immersed Boundary (IB) method to model two-phase…

The pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a prominent approach for simulating multiphase flows, valued for its physical intuitiveness and computational tractability. However, existing immiscible pseudopotential methods for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Yizhong Chen , Zhibin Wang