An Immersed Boundary Method for Moving Objects in Compressible Flows

Numerical simulations of compressible flows around moving solids are a crucial target in many engineering applications, e.g. the aerodynamic flutter, rocket engines and landing devices. Because of the availability of a large variety of high-resolution schemes developed for Cartesian structured meshes in a finite-difference framework, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) appears to be one of the most efficient and reliable strategies to deal with the problem