A global methodology for simulating multiphase flows and heat transfers interacting with complex objects or interfaces is presented. Elliptic equations or Navier-Stokes equations are resolved on a fixed structured curvilinear grid and the solid objects are initially represented by triangular surface elements. Several difficulties arise as soon as these two non-conforming grids have to interact ...

Electric field induced particle-particle interactions and assembly are of great interest due to their useful applications in micro devices. The behavior of particles becomes more complex if multiple particles interact with each other at the same time. In this paper, we present a numerical study of two dimensional DC dielectrophoresis based particle-particle interactions and assembly for multipl...

Accurate modeling of atmospheric flows over topography plays an important role in the prediction of local weather in mountain areas and snow avalanche due to wind-induced snow redistribution. Large eddy simulation (LES) is a numerical technique in which only the large eddies of the turbulent motions are calculated and the net effect of the small eddies is modeled by a subgrid scale (SGS) model,...

This paper presents an efficient treatment of fluid/elastic–structure interactions that takes advantage of the Fourier representation of immersed boundaries. We assume that the fluid is incompressible with uniform density and viscosity and that the immersed boundaries have fixed topologies. These elastic bodies can have large deformations and evolve anywhere within the fluid domain. They may be...

Many problems involving the interaction of an elastic structure and a viscous fluid can be solved by the immersed boundary (IB) method. In the IB approach to such problems, the elastic forces generated by the immersed structure are applied to the surrounding fluid, and the motion of the immersed structure is determined by the local motion of the fluid. Recently, the IB method has been extended ...