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We develop a mesoscale computational model to describe the interaction of a droplet with a solid. The model is based on the hybrid combination of the immersed boundary and the lattice Boltzmann computational schemes: the former is used to…

When two liquid drops touch, a microscopic connecting liquid bridge forms and rapidly grows as the two drops merge into one. Whereas coalescence has been thoroughly studied when drops coalesce in vacuum or air, many important situations…

This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

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Simulation approaches for fluid-structure-contact interaction, especially if requested to be consistent even down to the real contact scenarios, belong to the most challenging and still unsolved problems in computational mechanics. The main…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Christoph Ager , Benedikt Schott , Anh-Tu Vuong , Alexander Popp , Wolfgang A. Wall

Visuotactile sensing offers rich contact information that can help mitigate performance bottlenecks in imitation learning, particularly under vision-limited conditions, such as ambiguous visual cues or occlusions. Effectively fusing visual…

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In this study, we present a global Fourier mode decomposition framework for unsteady fluid-structure interaction. We apply the framework to isolate and extract the aeroelastic modes arising from a coupled three-dimensional fluid-membrane…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-19 G. Li , R. K. Jaiman , B. C. Khoo

This work presents an instance-agnostic learning framework that fuses vision with dynamics to simultaneously learn shape, pose trajectories, and physical properties via the use of geometry as a shared representation. Unlike many contact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Mengti Sun , Bowen Jiang , Bibit Bianchini , Camillo Jose Taylor , Michael Posa

The numerical simulation of multiphase flows involving dispersed components with large scale disparities, such as the collisions between millimeter-sized bubbles and micron-sized mineral particles in flotation, poses a significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Linfeng Jiang , Enrico Calzavarini , Dominik Krug

Composite interfaces are commonly simulated by cohesive zone models with the key challenge being the calibration of interfacial parameters. A new framework is presented in this paper to derive the characteristic of any cohesive zone model.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Tianxiang Shi , Miao Pang , Yangyang Wang , Yongqiang Zhang

A wide variety of interface capturing methods have been introduced for simulating two-phase flows throughout the years. However, there is a noticeable dearth of literature focusing on objective comparisons between these methods, especially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-11 Shahab Mirjalili , Christopher Blake Ivey , Ali Mani

We present a mesoscale kinetic model for multicomponent flows, augmented with a short range forcing term, aimed at describing the combined effect of surface tension and near-contact interactions operating at the fluid interface level. Such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-25 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Nicola Tirelli , Sauro Succi

Multiphase flows are characterized by sharp moving interfaces, separating different fluids or phases. In many cases the dynamics of the interface determines the behavior of the flow. In a coarse, or reduced order model, it may therefore be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-12 Xianyang Chen , Jiacai Lu , Gretar Tryggvason

The crystal-melt interfaces of a binary hard-sphere fluid mixture in coexistence with a single-component hard-sphere crystal is investigated using molecular-dynamics simulation. In the system under study, the fluid phase consists of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Sibug-Aga , Brian B. Laird

The prediction of interfacial structure in two-phase flow systems is difficult and challenging. In this paper, a novel physics-informed reinforcement learning-aided framework (PIRLF) for the interfacial area transport is proposed. A Markov…

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An interface control principle is proposed for unsteady fluid-structure in- teraction (FSI) analyses. This principle introduces a method of explicitly controlling the interface motion in the temporal direction to minimize the residual force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chungil Lee , Yoshiaki Abe , Yu Kawano , Tomoki Yamazaki

Many geophysical and astrophysical phenomena are driven by turbulent fluid dynamics, containing behaviors separated by tens of orders of magnitude in scale. While direct simulations have made large strides toward understanding geophysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 Jonathan S Cheng , Jonathan M Aurnou , Keith Julien , Rudie P J Kunnen

Void coalescence and interaction in dynamic fracture of ductile metals have been investigated using three-dimensional strain-controlled multi-million atom molecular dynamics simulations of copper. The correlated growth of two voids during…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 E. T. Seppälä , J. Belak , R. E. Rudd

Many complex multiphysics systems in fluid dynamics involve using solvers with varied levels of approximations in different regions of the computational domain to resolve multiple spatiotemporal scales present in the flow. The accuracy of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Suraj Pawar , Shady E. Ahmed , Omer San

Knowledge of bubble and drop size distributions in two-phase flows is important for characterizing a wide range of phenomena, including combustor ignition, sonar communication, and cloud formation. The physical mechanisms driving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Michael S. Dodd , Perry L. Johnson , Parviz Moin

Although polymerization and curing reactions govern the performance of advanced materials, their simulation remains challenging owing to the need for accurate, transferable potentials and rarity of chemical events. Conventional reactive…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Hodaka Mori , Shunsuke Tonogai , Yu Miyazaki , Akihide Hayashi , Masayoshi Takayanagi