Parallel computing strategy for the simulation of particulate flows with immersed boundary method

A parallel computing strategy for the simulation of particulate flows with immersed boundary technique is proposed. This strategy can deal with the coupling between fluid and particle easily when particle crosses the boundaries of sub-domains which are decomposed from original computational domain. And a two-dimensional circular particle settling in a closed rectangular domain is simulated with the parallel technique and immersed boundary method to validate the parallel efficiency. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50506027, 50736006, and 50776080)