A smoothing technique for discrete delta functions with application to immersed boundary method in moving boundary simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7821-7836

  Yang, Xiaolei ^a   Zhang, Xing ^a   Li, Zhilin ^b   He, Guo Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immersed boundary method; Moving boundary; Non physical force oscillations; Smoothed discrete delta function

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATING CYLINDERS; OSCILLATING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONDITION; FORCE OSCILLATIONS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; MOVING BOUNDARIES; NON-PHYSICAL FORCE OSCILLATION; PHYSICAL FORCE; PHYSICAL OSCILLATIONS; SMOOTHED DISCRETE DELTA FUNCTION; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; VOLUME FORCE;

DELTA FUNCTIONS;

EID: 69049089641     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.07.023     Document Type: Article

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