English
Related papers

Related papers: Beyond first-order accuracy in continuous-forcing …

200 papers

Strongly coupled immersed boundary (IB) methods solve the nonlinear fluid and structural equations of motion simultaneously for strongly enforcing the no-slip constraint on the body. Handling this constraint requires solving several large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-12 Nirmal Jayaprasad Nair , Andres Goza

In this paper, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) proposed by Pinelli is implemented for finite volume approximations of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations solutions in the open source toolbox OpenFOAM version 2.2. Solid obstacles are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-15 E. Constant , C. Li , J. Favier , M. Meldi , P. Meliga , E. Serre

Fluid-structure interactions are central to many bio-molecular processes, and they impose a great challenge for computational and modeling methods. In this paper, we consider the immersed boundary method (IBM) for biofluid systems, and to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Yushuang Luo , Xiantao Li , Wenrui Hao

Finding robot poses and trajectories represents a foundational aspect of robot motion planning. Despite decades of research, efficiently and robustly addressing these challenges is still difficult. Existing approaches are often plagued by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Chen Liang , Xifeng Gao , Kui Wu , Zherong Pan

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

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a widely used approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Although explicit versions of the IB method can suffer from severe time step size restrictions, these methods remain popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams , Robert D. Guy , Boyce E. Griffith

This paper presents an approach to enhance volume conservation in the immersed boundary (IB) method by using regularized delta functions derived from composite B-splines. The conventional IB method, while effective for fluid-structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Cole Gruninger , Boyce E. Griffith

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

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

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

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is a popular numerical approach to impose boundary conditions without relying on body-fitted grids, thus reducing the costly effort of mesh generation. To obtain enhanced accuracy, IBM can be combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Victor J. Llorente , Jiaqing Kou , Eusebio Valero , Esteban Ferrer

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 immersed boundary (IB) method has become a leading approach in cardiac fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling due to its ability to handle large deformations and complex geometries without requiring mesh regeneration. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Pengfei Ma , Li Cai , Xuan Wang , Hao Gao

The immersed boundary (IB) method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses Lagrangian variables to describe the structure and Eulerian variables to describe the fluid. Explicit time stepping schemes for the IB method require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Robert D. Guy , Bobby Philip , Boyce E. Griffith

We extend the recently introduced divergence-conforming immersed boundary (DCIB) method [1] to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving closed co-dimension one solids. We focus on capsules and vesicles, whose discretization is…

High-order numerical methods for solving elliptic equations over arbitrary domains typically require specialized machinery, such as high-quality conforming grids for finite elements method, and quadrature rules for boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Saad Qadeer , Boyce E. Griffith

The immersed boundary-finite element method (IBFE) is an approach to describing the dynamics of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this formulation, there are discontinuities in the pressure and viscous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Charles Puelz , Boyce E. Griffith

The immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) has been widely used in the simulation of fluid-solid interaction and particulate flow problems, since proposed in 2004. However, it is usually a non-trivial task to retain the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Shi Tao , Qing He , Baiman Chen , Simin Huang

A numerical tool relying on sharp Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is developed for the analysis of aerospace applications. The method, which is conceived for application using segregated solvers relying on implicit time discretization, uses…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-25 M. A. Chemak , E. Constant , M. Meldi

We investigate a projection-based reduced-order model of the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for moderate Reynolds numbers. In particular, we construct an "embedded" reduced basis space, by applying proper orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Efthymios N. Karatzas , Giovanni Stabile , Leo Nouveau , Guglielmo Scovazzi , Gianluigi Rozza