Cytoplasmic stirring by active carpets

B Chakrabarti, M Rachh, SY Shvartsman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Large cells often rely on cytoplasmic flows for intracellular transport, maintaining
homeostasis, and positioning cellular components. Understanding the mechanisms of these …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient convergent boundary integral methods for slender bodies

D Malhotra, A Barnett - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
The interaction of fibers in a viscous (Stokes) fluid plays a crucial role in industrial and
biological processes, such as sedimentation, rheology, transport, cell division, and …

A scalable computational platform for particulate Stokes suspensions

W Yan, E Corona, D Malhotra, S Veerapaneni… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We describe a computational framework for simulating suspensions of rigid particles in
Newtonian Stokes flow. One central building block is a collision-resolution algorithm that …

Driven dynamics in dense suspensions of microrollers

B Sprinkle, EB Van Der Wee, Y Luo, MM Driscoll… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform detailed computational and experimental measurements of the driven dynamics
of a dense, uniform suspension of sedimented microrollers driven by a magnetic field …

[HTML][HTML] The method of fundamental solutions for multi-particle Stokes flows: Application to a ring-like array of spheres

JJP Jordan, DA Lockerby - Journal of Computational Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
A method is presented for calculating Stokes flow around multiple particles of arbitrary
shape. It uses the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) applied to single particles …

A stable partitioned FSI algorithm for rigid bodies and incompressible flow in three dimensions

JW Banks, WD Henshaw, DW Schwendeman… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper describes a novel partitioned algorithm for fluid–structure interaction (FSI)
problems that couples the motion of rigid bodies and incompressible flow. This is the first …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate close interactions of Stokes spheres using lubrication-adapted image systems

A Broms, AH Barnett, AK Tornberg - Journal of Computational Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
Stokes flows with near-touching rigid particles induce near-singular lubrication forces under
relative motion, making their accurate numerical treatment challenging. With the aim of …

Boundary integral equation analysis for suspension of spheres in Stokes flow

E Corona, S Veerapaneni - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
We show that the standard boundary integral operators, defined on the unit sphere, for the
Stokes equations diagonalize on a specific set of vector spherical harmonics and provide …

[HTML][HTML] Computing collision stress in assemblies of active spherocylinders: Applications of a fast and generic geometric method

W Yan, H Zhang, MJ Shelley - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we provide a solution to the problem of computing collision stress in particle-
tracking simulations. First, a formulation for the collision stress between particles is derived …

A boundary-integral framework to simulate viscous erosion of a porous medium

BD Quaife, MNJ Moore - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
We develop numerical methods to simulate the fluid-mechanical erosion of many bodies in
two-dimensional Stokes flow. The broad aim is to simulate the erosion of a porous medium …