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The immersed boundary method (IB) is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas Battista , Christopher Strickland , Aaron Barrett , Laura Miller

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a general mathematical framework for studying problems involving fluid-structure interactions in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. In the IB formulation, the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Yuanxun Bao , Alexander D. Kaiser , Jason Kaye , Charles S. Peskin

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is one of the popular one-fluid mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian methods to simulate motion of droplets. While the treatment of a moving complex boundary is an extremely time consuming and formidable task in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Chia Rui Ong , Hiroaki Miura

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) method for internal flow problems with complex geometries (e.g., blood flow in the vascular system). In this study, we use a voxelized flow domain (discretized…

We present a simple and effective multigrid-based Poisson solver of second-order accuracy in both gravitational potential and forces in terms of the one, two and infinity norms. The method is especially suitable for numerical simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Chien-Chang Yen

A novel smooth immersed boundary method (IBM) based on a direct-forcing formulation is proposed to simulate incompressible dense particle-laden flows. This IBM relies on a regularization of the transfer function between the Eulerian grid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Victor Chéron , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

In this paper, a novel immersed boundary method is developed, validated, and applied. Through devising a second-order three-step flow reconstruction scheme, the proposed method is able to enforce the Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, and Cauchy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-10 Huangrui Mo , Fue-Sang Lien , Fan Zhang , Duane S. Cronin

The direct-forcing immersed boundary method (DF-IBM) algorithm previously developed by the authors is extended by coupling the Navier-Stokes equations with the Newton-Euler equations for rigid body dynamics within the DF-IBM framework. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 E. Farah , A. Ouahsine , P. G. Verdin , B. Kaoui

Wavelet-based grid adaptation methods use multiresolution analysis for error estimation, offering a mathematically rigorous approach to adaptive grid refinement when solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). However, applying these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Changxiao Nigel Shen , Wim M. van Rees

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

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

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a non-body conforming approach to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) that uses an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and incompressibility of a coupled fluid-structure system and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Jae H. Lee , Boyce E. Griffith

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

We present exact mixed-integer linear programming formulations for verifying the performance of first-order methods for parametric quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mixed-integer linear program where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Vinit Ranjan , Jisun Park , Stefano Gualandi , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato

Deep neural network approaches show promise in solving partial differential equations. However, unlike traditional numerical methods, they face challenges in enforcing essential boundary conditions. The widely adopted penalty-type methods,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Haijun Yu , Shuo Zhang

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

Immersed boundary methods are extensively used for simulations of dynamic solid objects interacting with fluids due to their computational efficiency and modelling flexibility compared to body-fitted grid methods. However, thin geometries,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

Simulating infiltration in porous media using Richards' equation remains computationally challenging due to its parabolic structure and nonlinear coefficients. While a wide range of numerical methods for differential equations have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Arnob Barua , Christopher E. Kees , Dmitri Kuzmin

This paper presents an efficient high-order sharp-interface method for solving the three-dimensional (3D) Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a nonuniform Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. The new approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Shirzad Hosseinverdi , Hermann F. Fasel