Neeraj, M.P.Maniyeri, R.2026-02-062023Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2023, Vol., , p. 49-5421954356https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6970-6_9https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/29594The particles suspended in a flowing fluid migrates with respect to the lift forces experienced which is generated by the virtue of the fluid. This type of movement which occurs without the aid of any external forces is known as inertial migration. The present work tries to construct a two-dimensional computational model to analyse the lateral migration of a neutrally buoyant rigid elliptical particle in Poiseuille flow which takes place in straight channel. The feedback forcing based immersed boundary methodology is adopted to build the numerical model. The inertial migration is addressed by studying the characteristics of equilibrium position and migration time. The effect of aspect ratio and initial release configuration of elliptical particle on the equilibrium position and migration time is observed with the use of the simulation results. The equilibrium is observed to be close to 0.6 times half the half of height of channel or more specifically at 0.27 for an aspect ratio of 3.333. However, with reduction in aspect ratio to 1.5 the equilibrium position shifts closer to 0.26. The decrease in aspect ratio from 3.333 to 1.5 also produces reduction in migration time from 5.906 to 4.074. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.Elliptical particleEquilibrium positionImmersed boundary methodInertial migrationMigration time