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Eulerian simulation of complex suspensions and biolocomotion in three dimensions

Lin, Yuexia Luna  
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Derr, Nicholas J.
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Rycroft, Chris H.
January 4, 2022
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)

We present a numerical method specifically designed for simulating three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems based on the reference map technique (RMT). The RMT is a fully Eulerian FSI numerical method that allows fluids and large-deformation elastic solids to be represented on a single fixed computational grid. This eliminates the need for meshing complex geometries typical in other FSI approaches and greatly simplifies the coupling between fluid and solids. We develop a three-dimensional implementation of the RMT, parallelized using the distributed memory paradigm, to simulate incompressible FSI with neo-Hookean solids. As part of our method, we develop a field extrapolation scheme that works efficiently in parallel. Through representative examples, we demonstrate the method's suitability in investigating many-body and active systems, as well as its accuracy and convergence. The examples include settling of a mixture of heavy and buoyant soft ellipsoids, lid-driven cavity flow containing a soft sphere, and swimmers actuated via active stress.

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research article
DOI
10.1073/pnas.2105338118
Web of Science ID

WOS:000748065000007

Author(s)
Lin, Yuexia Luna  
Derr, Nicholas J.
Rycroft, Chris H.
Date Issued

2022-01-04

Publisher

National Academy of Sciences

Published in
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)
Volume

119

Issue

1

Article Number

e2105338118

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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3d fluid-structure interaction

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incompressible navier-stokes equations

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large-deformation solids

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lid-driven cavity

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fluid-structure-interaction

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level set approach

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projection method

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heart-valves

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dynamics

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hydrodynamics

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computation

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algorithms

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elasticity

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model

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