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An adaptive version of ghost-cell immersed boundary method for incompressible flows with complex stationary and moving boundaries

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An adaptive version of immersed boundary method for simulating flows with complex stationary and moving boundaries is presented. The method employs a ghost-cell methodology which allows for a sharp representation of the immersed boundary. To simplify the implementation of the methodology, a volume-of-fluid method is introduced to identify the immersed boundary. In addition, the domain is spatially discretized using a tree-based discretization which is relatively simple to implement a fully flexible adaptive refinement strategy. Finally, the methodology is validated by comparing it with numerical and experimental results on three cases: (1) the flow passing a circular cylinder at Re=40 and Re=100, (2) a periodic oscillation of a circular cylinder in fluid at rest and (3) the self-propelled fish-like swimming at Re=6400.

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  1. School of Science, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 211101, China

    Liang Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    ChuiJie Wu

  3. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    ChuiJie Wu

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Wang, L., Wu, C. An adaptive version of ghost-cell immersed boundary method for incompressible flows with complex stationary and moving boundaries. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 53, 923–932 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-010-0185-z

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