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3 Citations
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Numerical Simulation of Flows Using the Fourier Pseudospectral Method and the Immersed Boundary Method

  • Laura Augusta Vasconcelos de Albuquerque,
  • Mariana Fernandes dos Santos Villela and
  • Felipe Pamplona Mariano

30 March 2024

The present work proposes the application of a computational methodology based on the coupling of the Fourier Pseudospectral Method (FPSM) and the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) for conducting flow simulations over slender airfoils. This methodology,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,392 Views
19 Pages

8 June 2024

In this paper, a kind of immersed boundary method, the discretized force with ghost cell method, is introduced to study compressible flow. Meanwhile, an adaptive mesh refinement scheme and a wall treatment for turbulent flow are proposed. With the he...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,350 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2020

Three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations have gained substantial popularity in recent years for stream flow modelling. The complex terrain in streams is usually represented by a 3D mesh conforming to the terrain geometry....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,293 Views
16 Pages

13 November 2024

A new immersed boundary method is proposed for the numerical simulation of the melting of solid particles in its own liquid at a high temperature. The main feature of the new method is the use of the modified direct-forcing immersed boundary method f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,491 Views
25 Pages

19 October 2020

For numerical simulations of ship and offshore hydrodynamic problems, it is challenging to model the interaction between the free surface and moving complex geometries. This paper proposes a discrete-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) to efficien...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,334 Views
46 Pages

Recent Developments in the Immersed Boundary Method for Complex Fluid–Structure Interactions: A Review

  • Omkar Powar,
  • Pedapudi Anantha Hari Arun,
  • Anwak Manoj Kumar,
  • Mithun Kanchan,
  • B. M. Karthik,
  • Poornesh Mangalore and
  • Mohith Santhya

16 May 2025

The “immersed boundary method (IBM)” is considered to be the most efficacious and versatile technique to solve flow problems associated with intricate geometries. The first part of this review examines recent advancements in IBM, essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,515 Views
23 Pages

The coupling action of gas flow with propellant burning surface regression is the critical process in solid rocket motor (SRM), which has an important effect on the unsteady combustion, erosive burning, dynamic combustion and pressure fluctuation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,977 Views
26 Pages

3 January 2024

In this work, the explicit boundary-condition-enforced immersed boundary method (EIBM) and the lattice Boltzmann flux solver (LBFS) are integrated into OpenFOAM to efficiently solve incompressible flows with complex geometries and moving boundaries....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,739 Views
17 Pages

Immersed Boundary Method Application as a Way to Deal with the Three-Dimensional Sudden Contraction

  • Jonatas E. Borges,
  • Marcos Lourenço,
  • Elie L. M. Padilla and
  • Christopher Micallef

The immersed boundary method has attracted considerable interest in the last few years. The method is a computational cheap alternative to represent the boundaries of a geometrically complex body, while using a cartesian mesh, by adding a force term...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,001 Views
17 Pages

4 April 2018

A hybrid immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann and finite difference method for fluid–structure interaction and heat transfer in non-Newtonian flow is presented. The present numerical method includes four parts: fluid solver, heat transfer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
629 Views
18 Pages

24 November 2025

This study addresses the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in predicting the aerodynamics and wakes of large wind turbines. We developed a unified immersed boundary–actuator line framework with large-eddy simulation. The actuator line e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,819 Views
22 Pages

Large-Eddy Simulations with an Immersed Boundary Method: Pollutant Dispersion over Urban Terrain

  • Franck Auguste,
  • Christine Lac,
  • Valery Masson and
  • Daniel Cariolle

18 January 2020

In urban canopies, the variability of pollution may be influenced by the presence of surface heterogeneities like orography and buildings. Using the Meso-NH model enhanced with an immersed boundary method (IBM) to represent accurately the impact of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
493 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2026

Fluid–structure coupling is a prominent and hot topic in computer graphics and virtual reality. The hybrid technique known as FLIP combines the benefits of grid-based and particle-based techniques. Nevertheless, a significant problem is figurin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,005 Views
18 Pages

28 March 2025

This study employs numerical techniques to investigate the motion characteristics of red blood cells (RBCs) and drug carriers (DCs) within microvessels. A coupled model of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and immersed boundary method (IBM) is propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,347 Views
15 Pages

26 October 2023

Mathematical modeling and analysis of biologically inspired systems has been a fascinating research topic in recent years. In this work, we present the results obtained from the simulation of an elastic rod (that mimics a flagellum axoneme) rotationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,140 Views
20 Pages

Numerical Investigation of Freely Falling Objects Using Direct-Forcing Immersed Boundary Method

  • Cheng-Shu You,
  • Ming-Jyh Chern,
  • Dedy Zulhidayat Noor and
  • Tzyy-Leng Horng

18 September 2020

The fluid-structure interaction of solid objects freely falling in a Newtonian fluid was investigated numerically by direct-forcing immersed boundary (DFIB) method. The Navier–Stokes equations are coupled with equations of motion through virtua...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,556 Views
17 Pages

25 January 2022

The application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to computational fluid dynamics simulations has recently attracted tremendous attention. In the simulations of PINNs, the collocation points are required to conform to the fluid–solid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,329 Views
25 Pages

29 November 2020

The air-water two-phase flow model is developed to study the transformation of monochromatic waves passing over the submerged structure. The level set method is employed to describe the motion of the interface while the effect of the immersed object...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,823 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Study of the Fish-like Robot Swimming in Fluid with High Reynolds Number: Immersed Boundary Method

  • Jun Zhang,
  • Zhichao Lv,
  • Haobo Hua,
  • Chunming Zhang,
  • Haiyang Yu and
  • Yanmei Jiao

13 June 2022

Fish-like robots have been widely used in intelligent surveillance and investigation because of their high swimming efficiency and low traveling noise. Numerical simulations are usually selected to simulate the movement modes and hydrodynamic charact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,621 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2016

Nanodrug-carrier delivery in the blood stream is strongly influenced by nanoparticle (NP) dispersion. This paper presents a numerical study on NP transport and dispersion in red blood cell (RBC) suspensions under shear and channel flow conditions, ut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
4,821 Views
21 Pages

26 November 2018

We investigated particulate flows by coupling simulations of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equation with the immersed boundary method (IBM). The results obtained from the two-way coupled simulation were compared with those of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,594 Views
27 Pages

17 February 2023

In the present work, verifying the applicability and potentiality of the IMERSPEC methodology for numerical and computational modeling of two-dimensional flows over airfoils and vertical axis wind turbines is proposed. It is a high-order convergence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,976 Views
19 Pages

17 March 2021

A flow–particle interaction solver was developed in this study. For the basic flow solver, an improved divergence-free-condition compensated coupled (IDFC2) framework was employed to predict the velocity and pressure field. In order to model the effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
552 Views
17 Pages

16 December 2025

Nonlinear water waves (NWWs) can be generated by the vertical bottom disturbance, which represents the conceptual processes of the rise of seabed rupture under seismic loads. To explore the correlation between the disturbance parameters and the wave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,420 Views
24 Pages

Application of the Euler–Lagrange Approach and Immersed Boundary Method to Investigate the Behavior of Rigid Particles in a Confined Flow

  • Jonatas Emmanuel Borges,
  • Sammy Cristopher Paredes Puelles,
  • Marija Demicoli and
  • Elie Luis Martínez Padilla

14 December 2023

The presence of particles with a small but finite size, suspended in viscous fluids with low volumetric concentrations, is observed in many applications. The present study focuses on the tridimensional and incompressible lid-driven flow of Newtonian...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,316 Views
16 Pages

6 November 2020

We review the immersed boundary (IB) method in order to investigate the fluid-structure interaction problems governed by the Navier–Stokes equation. The configuration is described by the Lagrangian variables, and the velocity and pressure of th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,983 Views
27 Pages

26 March 2023

Biological flows in swimming and flying bio-locomotion usually involve intricate flexible or rigid structures that undergo large deformations and displacements, as well as rich mechanisms of bio-fluid interactions. Immersed boundary methods (IBMs) ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,128 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2022

Aiming to investigate the rotation effect on the natural convection and heat transfer of nanofluid, which has an important application in the control of heat transfer, the velocity field and temperature distribution inside the square cylinder with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,681 Views
18 Pages

In natural environments, fish almost always swim in groups. Investigating the coupled mechanism of biomimetic fish exhibiting autonomous swimming capabilities advances our understanding of fish schooling phenomena and simultaneously aids in refining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,899 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2023

The wall boundary is important in computational-fluid-dynamics simulations. If extremely small leakage, changing leakage or a moving body exists in the simulation case, the difficulty in meshing and solving near-wall flow increases. The immersed-soli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,370 Views
20 Pages

3 December 2021

A combined immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann approach is used to simulate the dynamics of the fluid–structure interaction of a hollow sealing strip under the action of pressure difference. Firstly, the multiple relaxation times LBM mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,190 Views
18 Pages

12 April 2021

A new coupling method, immersed moving boundary–discrete element method–lattice Boltzmann method (IMB-DEM-LBM), is proposed to simulate particle flow for application in soil mechanics or coastal engineering. In this study, LBM fluid is simulated on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,494 Views
24 Pages

A Multi-Fidelity Framework for Wildland Fire Behavior Simulations over Complex Terrain

  • Marcos Vanella,
  • Kevin McGrattan,
  • Randall McDermott,
  • Glenn Forney,
  • William Mell,
  • Emanuele Gissi and
  • Paolo Fiorucci

18 February 2021

A method for the large-eddy simulation (LES) of wildfire spread over complex terrain is presented. In this scheme, a cut-cell immersed boundary method (CC-IBM) is used to render the complex terrain, defined by a tessellation, on a rectilinear Cartesi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,195 Views
23 Pages

17 March 2023

In order to obtain a better numerical simulation method for fluid–structure interaction (FSI), the IB-LBM combining the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and immersed boundary method (IBM) has been studied more than a decade. For this purpose, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,569 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2022

In the present study, mathematical modeling was performed to simulate natural convection of a nanofluid in a square enclosure using the thermal lattice Boltzmann flux solver (TLBFS). Firstly, natural convection in a square enclosure, filled with pure...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,800 Views
23 Pages

10 June 2020

The present work studies the interactions between fictitious-domain methods on structured grids and velocity–pressure coupling for the resolution of the Navier–Stokes equations. The pressure-correction approaches are widely used in this c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,698 Views
14 Pages

A Hybrid Parallel Numerical Model for Wave-Induced Free-Surface Flow

  • Georgios A. Leftheriotis,
  • Iason A. Chalmoukis,
  • Guillermo Oyarzun and
  • Athanassios A. Dimas

4 October 2021

An advanced numerical model is presented for the simulation of wave-induced free-surface flow, utilizing an efficient hybrid parallel implementation. The model is based on the solution of the Navier–Stokes equations using large-eddy simulation of lar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,757 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2022

Particle sedimentation is a fundamental process encountered in various industrial applications. In this study, we used immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann method and discrete element method (IBM-LBM-DEM) to investigate two-particle sedimentation. A l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,941 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2023

In this work, we employed the Immersed Boundary-Lattice Boltzmann Method (IB-LBM) to simulate the motion of a microparticle in a microchannel under the influence of a standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW). To capture the response of the target microp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,011 Views
12 Pages

Numerical Study on the Effect of Air–Sea–Land Interaction on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in Coastal Area

  • Zixuan Yang,
  • Antoni Calderer,
  • Sida He,
  • Fotis Sotiropoulos,
  • James D. Doyle,
  • David D. Flagg,
  • Jamie MacMahan,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Brian K. Haus and
  • Lian Shen
  • + 1 author

5 February 2018

We have performed large-eddy simulations (LES) to study the effect of complex land topography on the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in coastal areas. The areas under investigation are located at three beaches in Monterey Bay, CA, USA. The sharp-int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
888 Views
19 Pages

In the present study, a simple immersion boundary method was developed to numerically simulate the fluid-structure-acoustic coupling problem of underwater vehicles and their towed super long cables. A typical underwater vehicle connected with differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,884 Views
15 Pages

25 September 2018

A numerical investigation has been carried out to understand the mechanism of the rotation effect on bifurcation and dual solutions in natural convection within a horizontal annulus. A thermal immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method was used to re...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,563 Views
16 Pages

Capsules Rheology in Carreau–Yasuda Fluids

  • Alessandro Coclite,
  • Giuseppe Maria Coclite and
  • Domenico De Tommasi

3 November 2020

In this paper, a Multi Relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann scheme is used to describe the evolution of a non-Newtonian fluid. Such method is coupled with an Immersed-Boundary technique for the transport of arbitrarily shaped objects navigating the flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,439 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2021

Microorganisms often swim within heterogeneous fluid media composed of multiple materials with very different properties. The swimming speed is greatly affected by the composition and rheology of the fluidic environment. In addition, biological locom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
470 Views
12 Pages

Resolved Large Eddy Simulations of a Settling or Rising Spherical Microplastic Particle

  • Koray Deniz Goral,
  • Bjarke Eltard Larsen,
  • Hasan Gokhan Guler,
  • Stefan Carstensen,
  • Erik Damgaard Christensen and
  • David R. Fuhrman

The settling and rising of spherical microplastic particles with different Reynolds numbers, Re, were studied using a fully coupled large eddy simulation–discrete element method (LES-DEM) model, where the particles were treated using the immers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,426 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Cell-Based Adaptive Cartesian Grid Approach for Complex Flow Simulations

  • Canyan Luo,
  • Dan Zhou,
  • Shuang Meng,
  • Lin Bi,
  • Wenzheng Wang,
  • Xianxu Yuan and
  • Zhigong Tang

26 April 2024

As the need for handling complex geometries in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) grows, efficient and accurate mesh generation techniques become paramount. This study presents an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technology based on cell-based Cartesia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,840 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2022

Due to the entrapment of compressible air, the process of a flat plate impact on water is complicated, which cannot be reproduced using incompressible simulations. To investigate such a slamming process, an accuracy compressible fluid–structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,330 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2018

In-silico cellular models of blood are invaluable to gain understanding about the many interesting properties that blood exhibits. However, numerical investigations that focus on the effects of cytoplasmic viscosity in these models are not very preva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,435 Views
20 Pages

13 November 2024

Rigid–flexible coupling fluid–structure interaction systems are expected to be future solutions for reducing energy lost in water. The dynamics of these systems is usually investigated via numerical simulations. However, in existing numer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,805 Views
28 Pages

26 August 2024

The fine particle liquid–solid flow in porous media is involved in many industrial processes such as oil exploitation, geothermal reinjection and particle filtration. Understanding the migration characteristics of single fine particles in liqui...

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