Fluid vesicles in flow

D Abreu, M Levant, V Steinberg, U Seifert - Advances in colloid and …, 2014 - Elsevier
We review the dynamical behavior of giant fluid vesicles in various types of external
hydrodynamic flow. The interplay between stresses arising from membrane elasticity …

Deforming fluid domains within the finite element method: five mesh-based tracking methods in comparison

S Elgeti, H Sauerland - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2016 - Springer
Fluid flow applications can involve a number of coupled problems. One is the simulation of
free-surface flows, which require the solution of a free-boundary problem. Within this …

Isogeometric analysis for a phase-field constrained optimization problem of morphological evolution of vesicles in electrical fields

M Ashour, N Valizadeh, T Rabczuk - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we solve a constrained Willmore problem coupled with an electrical field using
IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA) to simulate the morphological evolution of vesicles subjected to …

3D numerical simulations of vesicle and inextensible capsule dynamics

A Farutin, T Biben, C Misbah - Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
Vesicles are locally-inextensible fluid membranes, capsules are endowed with in-plane
shear elasticity mimicking the cytoskeleton of red blood cells (RBCs), but are extensible …

Diffuse interface models of locally inextensible vesicles in a viscous fluid

S Aland, S Egerer, J Lowengrub, A Voigt - Journal of computational physics, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a new diffuse interface model for the dynamics of inextensible vesicles in a
viscous fluid with inertial forces. A new feature of this work is the implementation of the local …

A new capillary force model implemented in lattice Boltzmann method for gas–liquid–solid three-phase flows

X Zhang, H Liu, J Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A lattice Boltzmann method is developed for the direct numerical simulation of
gas, liquid, and solid three-phase flows. The liquid–gas two-phase flow with a high density …

Simulation of three-component fluid flows using the multiphase lattice Boltzmann flux solver

Y Shi, GH Tang, Y Wang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, we extend the multiphase lattice Boltzmann flux solver, which was proposed in
[1] for simulating incompressible flows of binary fluids based on two-component Cahn …

Numerical computations of the dynamics of fluidic membranes and vesicles

JW Barrett, H Garcke, R Nürnberg - Physical review E, 2015 - APS
Vesicles and many biological membranes are made of two monolayers of lipid molecules
and form closed lipid bilayers. The dynamical behavior of vesicles is very complex and a …

Hydrodynamics simulation of red blood cells: Employing a penalty method with double jump composition of lower order time integrator

A Laadhari, A Deeb, B Kaoui - Mathematical Methods in the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a numerical framework tailored for simulating the dynamics of vesicles with
inextensible membranes, which mimic red blood cells, immersed in a non‐Newtonian fluid …

An immersed boundary projection method for simulating the inextensible vesicle dynamics

KC Ong, MC Lai - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop an immersed boundary projection method (IBPM) based on an unconditionally
energy stable scheme to simulate the vesicle dynamics in a viscous fluid. Utilizing the block …