A general implicit direct forcing immersed boundary method for rigid particles

S Tschisgale, T Kempe, J Fröhlich - Computers & Fluids, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new immersed boundary method for rigid particles of arbitrary shape
and arbitrary density, which can be exactly zero. Especially in the latter case, the coupling of …

Sedimentation of a dilute suspension of rigid spheres at intermediate Galileo numbers: the effect of clustering upon the particle motion

M Uhlmann, T Doychev - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulation of the gravity-induced settling of finite-size particles in triply
periodic domains has been performed under dilute conditions. For a single solid-to-fluid …

An efficient conservative cut-cell method for rigid bodies interacting with viscous compressible flows

L Schneiders, C Günther, M Meinke… - Journal of Computational …, 2016 - Elsevier
A Cartesian cut-cell method for viscous flows interacting with freely moving boundaries is
presented. The method enables a sharp resolution of the embedded boundaries and strictly …

Direct numerical simulation of pattern formation in subaqueous sediment

AG Kidanemariam, M Uhlmann - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
We present results of direct numerical simulation of incompressible fluid flow over a thick
bed of mobile spherically shaped particles. The algorithm is based upon the immersed …

Pairwise-interaction extended point-particle model for particle-laden flows

G Akiki, WC Moore, S Balachandar - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work we consider the pairwise interaction extended point-particle (PIEP) model for
Euler–Lagrange simulations of particle-laden flows. By accounting for the precise location of …

Interface-resolved direct numerical simulation of the erosion of a sediment bed sheared by laminar channel flow

AG Kidanemariam, M Uhlmann - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2014 - Elsevier
A numerical method based upon the immersed boundary technique for the fluid–solid
coupling and on a soft-sphere approach for solid–solid contact is used to perform direct …

Numerical study of the sedimentation of spheroidal particles

MN Ardekani, P Costa, WP Breugem… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The gravity-driven motion of rigid particles in a viscous fluid is relevant in many natural and
industrial processes, yet this has mainly been investigated for spherical particles. We …

A comparative study of fluid-particle coupling methods for fully resolved lattice Boltzmann simulations

C Rettinger, U Rüde - Computers & Fluids, 2017 - Elsevier
The direct numerical simulation of particulate systems offers a unique approach to study the
dynamics of fluid-solid suspensions by fully resolving the submerged particles and without …

An immersed boundary/multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method on adaptive octree grids for the particle-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows

Z Cheng, A Wachs - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an immersed boundary/multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method for the
particle-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The no-slip boundary condition is …

Clustering and preferential concentration of finite-size particles in forced homogeneous-isotropic turbulence

M Uhlmann, A Chouippe - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
We have performed interface-resolved direct numerical simulations of forced homogeneous-
isotropic turbulence in a dilute suspension of spherical particles in the Reynolds number …