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Local Divergence-Free Immersed Finite Element-Difference Method Using Composite B-Splines
Lianxia Li, Cole Gruninger, Jae H. Lee +1
In the class of immersed boundary (IB) methods, the choice of the delta function plays a crucial role in transferring information between fluid and solid domains. Most prior work h…
physics.flu-dyn2024
Flagellum Pumping Efficacy in Shear-Thinning Viscoelastic Fluids
Aaron Barrett, Aaron L. Fogelson, M. Gregory Forest +3
Microorganism motility often takes place within complex, viscoelastic fluid environments, e.g., sperm in cervicovaginal mucus and bacteria in biofilms. In such complex fluids, stra…