Type: Article
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Citations: 67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/140978399
We introduce a new formulation for the finite element immersed boundary method which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier. We prove that a full discretization of our model, based on a semi-implicit time advancing scheme, is unconditionally stable with respect to the time step size.