Schenk, M., García-Villalba, M., Dušek, J., Uhlmann, M., & Moriche, M. (2025). An immersed boundary method for particle-resolved simulations of arbitrary-shaped rigid particles. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 188, Article 105200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2025.105200
The present work extends the direct-forcing immersed boundary method introduced by García-Villalba et al. (2023), broadening its application from spherical to arbitrarily-shaped particles, while maintaining its capacity to address both neutrally-buoyant and light objects (down to a density ratio of 0.5). The proposed method offers a significant advantage over existing methods regarding its simplicity, in particular for the case of neutrally-buoyant particles. Three test cases from the literature are selected for validation: a neutrally-buoyant prolate spheroid in a shear flow; a settling oblate spheroid; and, finally, a rising oblate spheroid.
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