Immersed methods for fluid–structure interaction

BE Griffith, NA Patankar - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Fluid–structure interaction is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all biological scales.
Immersed methods provide mathematical and computational frameworks for modeling fluid …

Leveraging collective effects in externally driven colloidal suspensions: Experiments and simulations

M Driscoll, B Delmotte - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review article, we focus on collective motion in externally driven colloidal
suspensions, as well as how these collective effects can be harnessed for use in microfluidic …

[HTML][HTML] Unstable fronts and motile structures formed by microrollers

M Driscoll, B Delmotte, M Youssef, S Sacanna… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Condensation of objects into stable clusters occurs naturally in equilibrium and driven
systems,,,. It is commonly held that potential interactions, depletion forces, or sensing are the …

Hybrid finite difference/finite element immersed boundary method

BE Griffith, X Luo - … journal for numerical methods in biomedical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The immersed boundary method is an approach to fluid‐structure interaction that uses a
Lagrangian description of the structural deformations, stresses, and forces along with an …

Fast stokesian dynamics

AM Fiore, JW Swan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present a new method for large scale dynamic simulation of colloidal particles with
hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces, which we call fast Stokesian dynamics …

A simple catch: Fluctuations enable hydrodynamic trapping of microrollers by obstacles

EB van der Wee, BC Blackwell, F Balboa Usabiaga… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
It is known that obstacles can hydrodynamically trap bacteria and synthetic microswimmers
in orbits, where the trapping time heavily depends on the swimmer flow field and noise is …

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 …

Relating rheotaxis and hydrodynamic actuation using asymmetric gold-platinum phoretic rods

Q Brosseau, FB Usabiaga, E Lushi, Y Wu, L Ristroph… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We explore the behavior of micron-scale autophoretic Janus (Au/Pt) rods, having various
Au/Pt length ratios, swimming near a wall in an imposed background flow. We find that their …

A DLM immersed boundary method based wave-structure interaction solver for high density ratio multiphase flows

N Nangia, NA Patankar, APS Bhalla - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a robust immersed boundary (IB) method for high density ratio
multiphase flows that is capable of modeling complex wave-structure interaction (WSI) …

An immersed interface method for discrete surfaces

EM Kolahdouz, APS Bhalla, BA Craven… - Journal of Computational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluid-structure systems occur in a range of scientific and engineering applications. The
immersed boundary (IB) method is a widely recognized and effective modeling paradigm for …