A computational model of aquatic animal locomotion
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
A computational model of the cochlea using the immersed boundary method
Journal of Computational Physics
Modeling biofilm processes using the immersed boundary method
Journal of Computational Physics
Matrix computations (3rd ed.)
Scattered data fitting on the sphere
Proceedings of the international conference on Mathematical methods for curves and surfaces II Lillehammer, 1997
Journal of Computational Physics
Error estimates for scattered data interpolation on spheres
Mathematics of Computation
Computing vertex normals from polygonal facets
Journal of Graphics Tools
Spectral methods in MATLAB
Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica
Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica
Lp-error estimates for radial basis function interpolation on the sphere
Journal of Approximation Theory
Unconditionally stable discretizations of the immersed boundary equations
Journal of Computational Physics
Foundations of Computational Mathematics
A Stable Algorithm for Flat Radial Basis Functions on a Sphere
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Meshfree Approximation Methods with MATLAB
Meshfree Approximation Methods with MATLAB
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The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a widely-used numerical methodology for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems. The IB method utilizes an Eulerian discretization for the fluid equations of motion while maintaining a Lagrangian representation of structural objects. Operators are defined for transmitting information (forces and velocities) between these two representations. Most IB simulations represent their structures with piecewise linear approximations and utilize Hookean spring models to approximate structural forces. Our specific motivation is the modeling of platelets in hemodynamic flows. In this paper, we study two alternative representations - radial basis functions (RBFs) and Fourier-based (trigonometric polynomials and spherical harmonics) representations - for the modeling of platelets in two and three dimensions within the IB framework, and compare our results with the traditional piecewise linear approximation methodology. For different representative shapes, we examine the geometric modeling errors (position and normal vectors), force computation errors, and computational cost and provide an engineering trade-off strategy for when and why one might select to employ these different representations.