New NSF award on mimetic immersed boundary methods

We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a three-year grant through the NSF’s Computational Mathematics program to advance mimetic immersed boundary (IB) methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI). This project focuses on IB methods that use anisotropic regularized delta functions based on composite B-splines to preserve mathematical structures that are lost by conventional IB coupling methods based on isotropic regularized delta functions. Methods resulting from the project will be implemented in IBAMR and assessed on a wide range of thin-interface and volumetric FSI benchmark cases.