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In this paper, we present a novel meshfree framework for fluid flow simulations on arbitrarily curved surfaces. First, we introduce a new meshfree Lagrangian framework to model flow on surfaces. Meshfree points or particles, which are used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Pratik Suchde

We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…

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This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

Many biological examples of fluid-structure interaction, including the transit of red blood cells through the narrow slits in the spleen and the intracellular trafficking of vesicles into dendritic spines, involve the near-contact of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Thomas G. Fai , Chris H. Rycroft

A set of boundary conditions called the Transpiration-Resistance Model (TRM) are investigated in altering near-wall turbulence. The TRM has been previously proposed by \citet{Lacis2020} as a means of representing the net effect of surface…

The method of regularized stokeslets is extensively used in biological fluid dynamics due to its conceptual simplicity and meshlessness. This simplicity carries a degree of cost in computational expense and accuracy because the number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 David J. Smith

A new statistical definition for the mean turbulent boundary layer thickness is introduced, based on identification of the point where the streamwise velocity skewness changes sign, from negative to positive, in the outermost region of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Mitchell Lozier , Rahul Deshpande , Ahmad Zarei , Luka Lindić , Wagih Abu Rowin , Ivan Marusic

Non-equilibrium wall turbulence with mean-flow three-dimensionality is ubiquitous in geophysical and engineering flows. Under these conditions, turbulence may experience a counter-intuitive depletion of the turbulent stresses, which has…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Marco Giometto , George I. Park , Parviz Moin

A fully-resolved direct-numerical-simulation (DNS) approach for investigating flexible bodies forced by a turbulent incoming flow is designed to study the flapping motion of a flexible flag at moderate Reynolds number. The incoming…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 Stefano Olivieri , Francesco Viola , Andrea Mazzino , Marco E. Rosti

In this paper, a meshfree method using the deep neural network (DNN) approach is developed for solving two kinds of dynamic two-phase interface problems governed by different dynamic partial differential equations on either side of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Xingwen Zhu , Xiaozhe Hu , Pengtao Sun

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a widely-used numerical methodology for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems. The IB method utilizes an Eulerian discretization for the fluid equations of motion while maintaining a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Aaron L. Fogelson , R. M. Kirby

This paper presents a neural network-based turbulence modeling approach for transonic flows based on the ensemble Kalman method. The approach adopts a tensor basis neural network for the Reynolds stress representation, with modified inputs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-12 Yi Liu , Xin-Lei Zhang , Guowei He

The simulation of certain flow problems requires a means for modeling a free fluid surface; examples being viscoelastic die swell or fluid sloshing in tanks. In a finite-element context, this type of problem can, among many other options,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Florian Zwicke , Sebastian Eusterholz , Stefanie Elgeti

We investigate the Reynolds-shear-stress carrying structures in the outer layer of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers using four direct numerical simulation databases, two cases of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 M. Ali Yesildag , Taygun R. Gungor , Ayse G. Gungor , Yvan Maciel

Pore-resolved direct numerical simulations of turbulent open channel flow are performed comparing the structure and dynamics of turbulence over impermeable rough and smooth walls to a porous sediment bed at permeability Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-02 Shashank K. Karra , Sourabh V. Apte , Xiaoliang He , Timothy D. Scheibe

The paper presents a high Reynolds number experimental study of turbulent boundary layer separation control on a convex plate using the wavy-wall method, which was initially proposed for a flat plate by Dr\'o\.zd\.z et al. 2021 (Exp Therm…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Artur Dróżdż , Mathias Romańczyk , Witold Elsner

Wall-bounded turbulent shear flows are known to exhibit universal small-scale dynamics that are modulated by large-scale flow structures. Strong pressure gradients complicate this characterization, however; they can cause significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-18 Sean P. Carney , Robert D. Moser

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a mathematical framework for constructing robust numerical methods to study fluid-structure interaction in problems involving an elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The IB formulation uses an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Yuanxun Bao , Aleksandar Donev , Boyce E. Griffith , David M. McQueen , Charles S. Peskin

Simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds number is a computationally challenging task relevant to a large number of engineering and scientific applications in diverse fields such as climate science, aerodynamics, and combustion.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Jaideep Pathak , Mustafa Mustafa , Karthik Kashinath , Emmanuel Motheau , Thorsten Kurth , Marcus Day

Numerical simulations of turbulent flows are well known to pose extreme computational challenges due to the huge number of dynamical degrees of freedom required to correctly describe the complex multi-scale statistical correlations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-27 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Gabbana , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza , Federico Toschi