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An improved immersed boundary method for curvilinear grids

2009

Abstract In the present paper we propose an extension of the direct-forcing immersed boundary technique, recently developed and employed by Verzicco and co-authors [Fadlun EA, Verzicco R, Orlandi P, Mohd-Yusof J. Combined immersed-boundary finite-difference methods for three-dimensional complex flow simulations. J Comput Phys 2000;161:35–60; Verzicco R, Fatica M, Iaccarino G, Moin P, Khalighi B. Large eddy simulation of a road vehicle with drag-reduction devices. AIAA J 2002;40(12):2447–55; Cristallo A, Verzicco R. Combined immersed boundary/large-eddy-simulations of incompressible three-dimensional complex flows. Flow Turbul Combust 2006;77(1–4):3–26.] and successively improved by Balaras …