Hydrodynamics of suspensions of passive and active rigid particles: a rigid multiblob approach

F Balboa Usabiaga, B Kallemov, B Delmotte… - … in Applied Mathematics …, 2017 - msp.org
We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility problem for
suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape in Stokes flow in …

An immersed boundary method for rigid bodies

B Kallemov, A Bhalla, B Griffith, A Donev - Communications in Applied …, 2016 - msp.org
We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving
rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes …

A fast platform for simulating semi-flexible fiber suspensions applied to cell mechanics

E Nazockdast, A Rahimian, D Zorin… - Journal of Computational …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a novel platform for the large-scale simulation of three-dimensional fibrous
structures immersed in a Stokesian fluid and evolving under confinement or in free-space in …

Integral-based spectral method for inextensible slender fibers in Stokes flow

O Maxian, A Mogilner, A Donev - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Every animal cell is filled with a cytoskeleton, a dynamic gel made of inextensible fibers,
such as microtubules, actin fibers, and intermediate filaments, all suspended in a viscous …

[HTML][HTML] Large scale Brownian dynamics of confined suspensions of rigid particles

B Sprinkle, F Balboa Usabiaga, NA Patankar… - The Journal of chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce methods for large-scale Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulation of many rigid
particles of arbitrary shape suspended in a fluctuating fluid. Our method adds Brownian …

A fast integral equation method for solid particles in viscous flow using quadrature by expansion

L af Klinteberg, AK Tornberg - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
Boundary integral methods are advantageous when simulating viscous flow around rigid
particles, due to the reduction in number of unknowns and straightforward handling of the …

Spectral Ewald acceleration of Stokesian dynamics for polydisperse suspensions

M Wang, JF Brady - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work we develop the Spectral Ewald Accelerated Stokesian Dynamics (SEASD), a
novel computational method for dynamic simulations of polydisperse colloidal suspensions …

A highly accurate boundary integral equation method for surfactant-laden drops in 3D

C Sorgentone, AK Tornberg - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
The presence of surfactants alters the dynamics of viscous drops immersed in an ambient
viscous fluid. This is specifically true at small scales, such as in applications of droplet based …

An integral equation formulation for rigid bodies in Stokes flow in three dimensions

E Corona, L Greengard, M Rachh… - Journal of Computational …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a new derivation of a boundary integral equation (BIE) for simulating the three-
dimensional dynamics of arbitrarily-shaped rigid particles of genus zero immersed in a …

A 3D boundary integral method for the electrohydrodynamics of surfactant-covered drops

C Sorgentone, AK Tornberg, PM Vlahovska - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a highly accurate numerical method based on a boundary integral formulation
and the leaky dielectric model to study the dynamics of surfactant-covered drops in the …