The immersed boundary (IB) method is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure ...

While students may find spline interpolation quite digestible, based on their familiarity with continuity of a function and its derivatives, some of its inherent value may be missed when students only see it applied to ...

The development of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) software involves trade-offs between ease of use, generality, performance, and cost. Typically there are large learning curves when using low-level software to model the ...

In a developing vertebrate heart, the heart does not simply beat just to transport blood, nutrients, and oxygen, but it beats to aid in the formation.

In this paper, we present an open-source software library that can be used to numerically simulate the advection and diffusion of a chemical concentration or heat density in a viscous fluid where a moving, elastic boundary ...

This article provides models and code for numerically simulating muscle–fluid–structure interactions (FSIs). This work was presented as part of the symposium on Leading Students and Faculty to Quantitative Biology through ...

Computational scientists have investigated swimming performance across a multitude of different systems for decades. Most models depend on numerous model input parameters and performance is sensitive to those parameters. ...