3d conservative coupling method between a compressible fluid flow and a deformable structure

Document typeConference report
Defense date2013
PublisherCIMNE
Rights accessOpen Access
Abstract
In this work, we present a conservative method for three-dimensional inviscid fluid-structure interaction
problems. On the fluid side, we consider an inviscid Euler fluid in conservative form. The Finite Volume
method uses the OSMP high-order flux with a Strang operator directional splitting [1]. On the solid side,
we consider an elastic deformable solid. In order to examine the issue of energy conservation, the behavior
law is here assumed to be linear elasticity. In order to ultimately deal with rupture, we use a Discrete
Element method for the discretization of the solid [2]. An immersed boundary technique is employed
through the modification of the Finite Volume fluxes in the vicinity of the solid. Since both fluid and
solid methods are explicit, the coupling scheme is designed to be globally explicit too. The computational
cost of the fluid and solid methods lies mainly in the evaluation of fluxes on the fluid side and of forces
and torques on the solid side. The coupling algorithm evaluates these only once every time step, ensuring
the computational efficiency of the coupling. Our approach is an extension to the three-dimensional
deformable case of the conservative method developed in [3]. We focus herein numerical results assessing
the robustness of the method in the case of a undeformable solid with large displacements subjected to
a compressible fluid flow.
ISBN978-84-941407-6-1
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