Fluid–structure interaction is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all biological scales.
Immersed methods provide mathematical and computational frameworks for modeling fluid …

For the research and development (R&D) of wave energy converters (WECs), numerical
wave tanks (NWTs) provide an excellent numerical tool, enabling a cost-effective testbed for …

We present an improved method for computing incompressible viscous flow around
suspended rigid particles using a fixed and uniform computational grid. The main idea is to …

An immersed boundary method (IBM) with second-order spatial accuracy is presented for
fully resolved simulations of incompressible viscous flows laden with rigid particles. The …

Gas–solid momentum transfer is a fundamental problem that is characterized by the
dependence of normalized average fluid–particle force F on solid volume fraction ϕ and the …

Behaviour of granular soils subjected to internal erosion involves complex coupling between
solid–fluid interaction, skeleton deformation and microstructural evolutions. This paper …

An efficient approach for the simulation of finite-size particles with interface resolution was
presented by Uhlmann [M. Uhlmann, An immersed boundary method with direct forcing for …

Gas-solid flows in nature and industrial applications are characterized by multiscale and
nonlinear interactions that manifest as rich flow physics and pose unique modeling …

Gas-solid fluidized beds are widely applied in many chemical processes involving physical
and/or chemical transformations, and for this reason they are the subject of intense research …

In this paper, we develop a resolved coupling model to simulate interaction between two-
phase fluids and irregularly shaped particles by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …