Sharp Interface Methods for Cardiac Fluid-Structure Interaction
Amneet Bhalla, University of North Carolina
Abstract: Fluid-solid systems are
common in scientific and bio-engineering applications. The
immersed boundary (IB) method is a general approach to
modeling such systems. A difficulty of this IB formulation is
that the pressure and viscous stress are generally
discontinuous at fluid-solid interfaces. We will describe
extensions of the IB method that sharply resolve stress
discontinuities at fluid-solid interfaces. These methods can
be viewed as extensions of the immersed interface method to
non-interfacial (codimension-0) solid bodies. As an
application of the technique, we present some preliminary
results on bileaflet mechanical heart valve modeling.