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Area of Science:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Numerical Methods for Fluid Mechanics
  • Biophysics and Biofluidics

Background:

  • Simulating incompressible viscous flow around complex geometries is computationally challenging.
  • Existing immersed boundary methods often struggle with sharp interfaces and complex, deforming bodies.
  • Accurate modeling of fluid-structure interactions is crucial in various scientific and engineering fields.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a sharp interface immersed boundary method for simulating incompressible viscous flow.
  • To demonstrate the method's capability in handling complex, stationary, moving, and deforming 3D bodies.
  • To validate the solver's accuracy and fidelity across various flow regimes and boundary conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Employs a multi-dimensional ghost-cell methodology for enforcing boundary conditions on immersed surfaces.
  • Utilizes unstructured triangular elements for representing complex immersed surfaces.
  • Computes flow dynamics on non-uniform Cartesian grids, enabling efficient simulations.

Main Results:

  • The method accurately simulates incompressible viscous flow past stationary and moving 3D immersed bodies.
  • Verification through canonical 2D and 3D flow simulations across a range of Reynolds numbers.
  • Successful validation for moving boundary problems using suddenly accelerated bodies.

Conclusions:

  • The developed sharp interface immersed boundary method is accurate, versatile, and robust.
  • Demonstrates significant potential for simulating complex bio-inspired flows and fluid-structure interactions.
  • The ghost-cell methodology effectively handles boundary conditions on intricate and dynamic geometries.