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A Spectrally Accurate Boundary Integral Method for Interfacial Velocities in Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow

Xu Sun & Xiaofan Li

Commun. Comput. Phys., 8 (2010), pp. 933-946.

Published online: 2010-08

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We present a new numerical method for solving two-dimensional Stokes flow with deformable interfaces such as dynamics of suspended drops or bubbles. The method is based on a boundary integral formulation for the interfacial velocity and is spectrally accurate in space. We analyze the singular behavior of the integrals (single-layer and double-layer integrals) appearing in the equations. The interfaces are formulated in the tangent angle and arc-length coordinates and, to reduce the stiffness of the evolution equation, the marker points are evenly distributed in arc-length by choosing a proper tangential velocity along the interfaces. Examples of Stokes flow with bubbles are provided to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the numerical method.

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We present a new numerical method for solving two-dimensional Stokes flow with deformable interfaces such as dynamics of suspended drops or bubbles. The method is based on a boundary integral formulation for the interfacial velocity and is spectrally accurate in space. We analyze the singular behavior of the integrals (single-layer and double-layer integrals) appearing in the equations. The interfaces are formulated in the tangent angle and arc-length coordinates and, to reduce the stiffness of the evolution equation, the marker points are evenly distributed in arc-length by choosing a proper tangential velocity along the interfaces. Examples of Stokes flow with bubbles are provided to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the numerical method.

Xu Sun & Xiaofan Li. (2020). A Spectrally Accurate Boundary Integral Method for Interfacial Velocities in Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow. Communications in Computational Physics. 8 (4). 933-946. doi:10.4208/cicp.190909.090310a
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