Slone, A.K., Williams, A.J., Grossman, D., Croft, T.N. and Cross, M. (2003) A generic time and space accurate numerical approach to closely coupled fluid-structure interaction problems. In: NAFEMS World Congress 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA.

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Abstract

Fluid structure interaction, as applied to flexible structures, has wide application in diverse areas such as flutter in aircraft, flow in elastic pipes and blood vessels and extrusion of metals through dies. However a comprehensive computational model of these multi-physics phenomena is a considerable challenge. Until recently work in this area focused on one phenomenon and represented the behaviour of the other more simply even to the extent in metal forming, for example, that the deformation of the die is totally ignored. More recently, strategies for solving the full coupling between the fluid and soild mechanics behaviour have developed.

Conventionally, the computational modelling of fluid structure interaction is problematical since computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is solved using finite volume (FV) methods and computational structural mechanics (CSM) is based entirely on finite element (FE) methods. In the past the concurrent, but rather disparate, development paths for the finite element and finite volume methods have resulted in numerical software tools for CFD and CSM that are different in almost every respect. Hence, progress is frustrated in modelling the emerging multi-physics problem of fluid structure interaction in a consistent manner. Unless the fluid-structure coupling is either one way, very weak or both, transferring and filtering data from one mesh and solution procedure to another may lead to significant problems in computational convergence.

Using a novel three phase technique the full interaction between the fluid and the dynamic structural response are represented. The procedure is demonstrated on some challenging applications in complex three dimensional geometries involving aircraft flutter, metal forming and blood flow in arteries.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Additional Information:	[1] This paper was first presented at the 2003 NAFEMS World Congress held in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	numerical approach, fluid structure, computational fluid dynamics, (CFD), computational structural mechanics, (CSM), finite element, (FE), finite volume (FV)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software Q Science > QC Physics T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Computational Science & Engineering Group
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Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:01
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/696

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