Immersed Boundary Techniques

David Hillier, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.

This project is being conducted in collaboration with the FLAIR research group, and relates to the implementation of an immersed boundary technique into an existing spectral element fluid solver. An immersed boundary technique simulates the presence of an arbitrary boundary on an arbitrary underlying mesh. The benefits of this technique would be the capabilities to perform preliminary simulations of complex geometries and the simulation of moving boundaries. Access to the Monash Sun Grid would assist this project by allowing researchers to run more computationally-intensive simulations.