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This paper presents a novel volume of fluid ghost-cell immersed boundary (IB) method for two-phase free surface flow interacting with structures. To circumvent the disturbance occurring around the intersection area of the IB and free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-16 Fan Chen , Jinghua Wang , Huan-Feng Duan

Immersed methods discretize boundary conditions for complex geometries on background Cartesian grids. This makes such methods especially suitable for two-way coupled flow-body problems, where the body mechanics are partially driven by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinjie Ji , James Gabbard , Wim M. van Rees

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) solver for numerically solving incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. Particular emphasis is given to internal flows with complex geometries (blood flow in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 G. C. Bourantas , D. L. Lampropoulos , B. F. Zwick , V. C. Loukopoulos , A. Wittek , K. Miller

A volume penalization-based immersed boundary technique is developed and thoroughly validated for fluid flow problems, specifically flow over bluff bodies. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in an Open Source Field Operation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-19 Prashant Kumar , Vivek Kumar , Di Chen , Yosuke Hasegawa

There has been an increasing interest in developing efficient immersed boundary method (IBM) based on Cartesian grids, recently in the context of high-order methods. IBM based on volume penalization is a robust and easy to implement method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Jiaqing Kou , Esteban Ferrer

We present a simple modification of the direct-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) proposed by Uhlmann [J. Comput. Phys, 2005] in order to enable it to be applied to particulate flows with solid-to-fluid density ratios around unity. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Manuel Garcia-Villalba , Blanca Fuentes , Jan Dusek , Manuel Moriche , Markus Uhlmann

A boundary thickening-based direct forcing (BTDF) immersed boundary (IB) method is proposed for fully resolved simulation of incompressible viscous flows laden with finite size particles. By slightly thickening the boundary thickness, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Maoqiang Jiang , Zhaohui Liu

We introduce a new implementation of the Immersed Boundary method in the finite-volume library OpenFOAM. The implementation is tailored to the simulation of temperature-dependent non-Newtonian polymeric flows in complex moving geometries,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-12 G. Negrini , N. Parolini , M. Verani

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

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

Accurate and efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems remains a central challenge in computational physics. High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer low numerical errors and excellent scalability on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yingjie Xia , Stefano Colombo , David Huergo , Jiaqing Kou , Yuting Dai , Esteban Ferrer

We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes flow. The spatio-temporal discretization of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-02 B. Kallemov , A. Pal Singh Bhalla , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

High-fidelity simulations of unsteady fluid flow are now possible with advancements in high-performance computing hardware and software frameworks. Since computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computations are dominated by linear algebraic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Rahul Sundar , Dipanjan Majumdar , Chhote Lal Shah , Sunetra Sarkar

A simulation framework based on the level-set and the immersed boundary methods (LS-IBM) has been developed for reactive transport problems in porous media involving a moving solid-fluid interface. The interface movement due to surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-13 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh , Yinuo Yao , Ilenia Battiato

A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Faraz Salimnezhad , Hasret Turkeri , Iskender Gokalp , Metin Muradoglu

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

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-17 Yuri Feldman , Yosef Gulberg

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

Interactions between an evolving solid and inviscid flow can result in substantial computational complexity, particularly in circumstances involving varied boundary conditions between the solid and fluid phases. Examples of such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-30 Emma M. Schmidt , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

We present and analyze a series of benchmark tests regarding the application of the immersed boundary (IB) method to viscoelastic flows through and around non-trivial, stationary geometries. The IB method is widely used for the simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-17 Cole Gruninger , Aaron Barrett , Fuhui Fang , M. Gregory Forest , Boyce E. Griffith