This paper presents a new high-order immersed interface method for elliptic equations with imbedded interface of discontinuity. Compared with the original second-order immersed interface method of [R.J. LeVeque, Z. Li. The immersed interface method for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 31 (1994) 1001–25], the new method achieves arbitr...

Peskin’s Immersed Boundary Method has been widely used for simulating many fluid mechanics and biology problems. One of the essential components of the method is the usage of certain discrete delta functions to deal with singular forces along one or several interfaces in the fluid domain. However, the Immersed Boundary Method is known to be first-order accurate and usually smears out the soluti...

Numerical simulation of two-phase flow with imbedded interface of discontinuity is challenging in two major aspects. First, the interface can undergo change, merge and breakup during the course of the simulation. Examples of current successful methods in modeling flow with interface are, among others, the volume-of-fluid method, fronttracking method, and level-set method. Second, flow variables...