In this paper,an immersed interface method is presented to simulate the dynamics of inextensible interfaces in an incompressible flow.The tension is introduced as an augmented variable to satisfy the constraint of int...In this paper,an immersed interface method is presented to simulate the dynamics of inextensible interfaces in an incompressible flow.The tension is introduced as an augmented variable to satisfy the constraint of interface inextensibility,and the resulting augmented system is solved by the GMRES method.In this work,the arclength of the interface is locally and globally conserved as the enclosed region undergoes deformation.The forces at the interface are calculated from the configuration of the interface and the computed augmented variable,and then applied to the fluid through the related jump conditions.The governing equations are discretized on a MAC grid via a second-order finite difference scheme which incorporates jump contributions and solved by the conjugate gradient Uzawa-type method.The proposed method is applied to several examples including the deformation of a liquid capsule with inextensible interfaces in a shear flow.Numerical results reveal that both the area enclosed by interface and arclength of interface are conserved well simultaneously.These provide further evidence on the capability of the present method to simulate incompressible flows involving inextensible interfaces.展开更多
基金The authors would like to thank the referees for the valuable suggestions on the revision of the manuscript.The research of the first author was partially supported by Guangdong Provincial Government of China through the“Computational Science Innovative Research Team”program,the Sun Yat-sen University“Hundred Talents Program”(34000-3181201)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11101446).
文摘In this paper,an immersed interface method is presented to simulate the dynamics of inextensible interfaces in an incompressible flow.The tension is introduced as an augmented variable to satisfy the constraint of interface inextensibility,and the resulting augmented system is solved by the GMRES method.In this work,the arclength of the interface is locally and globally conserved as the enclosed region undergoes deformation.The forces at the interface are calculated from the configuration of the interface and the computed augmented variable,and then applied to the fluid through the related jump conditions.The governing equations are discretized on a MAC grid via a second-order finite difference scheme which incorporates jump contributions and solved by the conjugate gradient Uzawa-type method.The proposed method is applied to several examples including the deformation of a liquid capsule with inextensible interfaces in a shear flow.Numerical results reveal that both the area enclosed by interface and arclength of interface are conserved well simultaneously.These provide further evidence on the capability of the present method to simulate incompressible flows involving inextensible interfaces.
