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Frontiers in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation: Research from Lead Investigators under Forty 2018 The Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling (T*AFSM) focuses on computational engineering analysis with advanced flow simulation and modeling methods developed by the team. The T*AFSM has members at Rice University in Houston and Waseda University in Tokyo. The T*AFSM members have been recognized internationally for advanced research with immediate relevance -- research that brings solution and analysis to real-world problems and makes impact on our lives. This recognition is evident not only in articles published and invited lectures given by the T*AFSM members, but also in numerous cover pages and magazine articles featuring T*AFSM work, as well as several prestigious awards . The T*AFSM pioneered the development of space-time (ST) methods for computational analysis of fluid-structure interactions (FSI) , fluid-object and fluid-particle interactions , free-surface flows , and two-fluid interfaces . The T*AFSM also pioneered the ST computational analysis of parachute FSI , and brought parachute analysis to a new era in sophistication of the methods developed and level of computational challenges overcome. The T*AFSM has also successfully extended the computational analysis scope of the ST methods to challenging problems in biomedical engineering and biomechanics, with emphasis on patient-specific cardiovascular fluid mechanics and FSI , cerebral aneurysms and stent treatment of cerebral aneurysms, coronary arteries, and heart valves. With new ideas based on the unique features of the ST computational framework, the T*AFSM brought new and powerful ways of analysis to flapping-wing aerodynamics, with emphasis on wing motion extracted from video recordings of an actual locust in wind tunnel, and wind-turbine aerodynamics, with emphasis on representing the actual rotor geometry and accounting for the rotor-tower interaction. The impact the T*AFSM made in computational analysis of ...