scholarly journals Partitioned Solution Strategies for Strongly-Coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems in Maritime Applications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel König

Eine sehr interessante und umfangreiche Arbeit aus der „Arbeitsgruppe Numerische Strukturanalyse mit Anwendungen in der Schiffstechnik“ aus dem Institut „M-10“ der Technischen Universität Hamburg – das lohnt sich!. Many engineering applications are governed by coupled multifield phenomena. In this thesis, a partitioned solution approach is followed to solve these kind of problems, which does not only enable the use of different discretization schemes for each of the subproblems but also allows to reuse specialized and efficient solvers, which enhances modularity, software reusability, and performance. A framework for the partitioned analysis of general multifield problems is proposed and implemented in the generic software library comana, which is verified against various benchmark problems and successfully applied to sophisticated fluid-structure interaction problems from the maritime industry. ...

Author(s):  
P. Brousseau ◽  
M. Benaouicha ◽  
S. Guillou

This paper deals with the dynamics of an oscillating foil, describing a free heaving (vertical displacement) and prescribed pitching (rotational displacement) movement which is computed from its position in two different ways. A fluid-structure interaction approach is chosen, as the physics of the flow and the structure are strongly coupled. The flow is unsteady, turbulent and incompressible. The pressure/velocity problem is solved using SIMPLEC scheme. First, the pitching movement is considered as a given continuous function of the hydrofoil heaving position. Second, the pitching motion is performed alternately at the end of each heave cycle. For each case, two maximum angles of attack and one heaving amplitudes are studied. Preliminary results showed that a high maximum angle of attack generates more lift hydrodynamics force, but also requires more energy to perform the rotation of pitch.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Fangjin Sun ◽  
Donghan Zhu ◽  
Tiantian Liu ◽  
Daming Zhang

A strongly coupled monolithic method was previously proposed for the computation of wind-induced fluid-structure interaction of flexible membranous structures by the authors. How to obtain the accurate solution is a key issue for the strongly coupled monolithic method. Projection methods are among the commonly used methods for the coupled solution. In the work here, to impose initial pressure boundary conditions implicitly defined in the original momentum equations in classical projection methods when dealing with large-displacement of membranous structures, a modified factor is introduced in corrector step of classical projection methods and a new modified projection method is obtained. The solution procedures of the modified projection method aimed at strongly coupled monolithic equations are given, and the related equations are derived. The proposed method is applied to the computation of a two-dimensional fluid-structure interaction benchmark case and wind-induced fluid-structure interaction of a three-dimensional flexible membranous structure. The performance and efficiency of the modified projection method are evaluated. The results show that the modified projection methods are valid in the computation of wind-induced fluid-structure interaction of flexible membranous structures, with higher accuracy and efficiency compared with traditional methods. The modified value has little effects on the computation results whereas iteration times has significant effects. Computation accuracy can be improved greatly by increasing iteration times with less increase in computation time and little effects on stability with the modified projection method.


Author(s):  
Saeed Hosseinzadeh ◽  
Kristjan Tabri

The present study is concerned with the numerical simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) on a deformable three-dimensional hydrofoil in a turbulent flow. The aim of this work is to develop a strongly coupled two-way fluid-structure interaction methodology with a sufficiently high spatial accuracy to examine the effect of turbulent and cavitating flow on the hydroelastic response of a flexible hydrofoil. A 3-D cantilevered hydrofoil with two degrees-of-freedom is considered to simulate the plunging and pitching motion at the foil tip due to bending and twisting deformation. The defined problem is numerically investigated by coupled Finite Volume Method (FVM) and Finite Element Method (FEM) under a two-way coupling method. In order to find a better understanding of the dynamic FSI response and stability of flexible lifting bodies, the fluid flow is modeled in the different turbulence models and cavitation conditions. The flow-induced deformation and elastic response of both rigid and flexible hydrofoils at various angles of attack are studied. The effect of three-dimension body, pressure coefficient at different locations of the hydrofoil, leading-edge and trailing-edge deformation are presented and the results show that because of elastic deformation, the angle of attack increases and it lead to higher lift and drag coefficients. In addition, the deformations are generally limited by stall condition and because of unsteady vortex shedding, the post-stall condition should be considered in FSI simulation of deformable hydrofoil. To evaluate the accuracy of the numerical model, the present results are compared and validated against published experimental data and showed good agreement.


Author(s):  
Michael Scha¨fer ◽  
Saim Yigit ◽  
Marcus Heck

The paper deals with an implicit partitioned solution approach for the numerical simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems. The solution procedure involves the finite-volume flow solver FASTEST, the finite-element structural solver FEAP, and the coupling interface MpCCI. The method is verified and validated by comparisons with benchmark results and experimental data. Investigations concerning the influence of the grid movement technique and an underrelaxation on the performance of the method are presented.


Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Gangadharan ◽  
Sriram Venkatachalam

Hydroelasticity is an important problem in the field of ocean engineering. It can be noted from most of the works published as well as theories proposed earlier that this particular problem was addressed based on the time independent/ frequency domain approach. In this paper, we propose a novel numerical method to address the fluid-structure interaction problem in time domain simulations. The hybrid numerical model proposed earlier for hydro-elasticity (Sriram and Ma, 2012) as well as for breaking waves (Sriram et al 2014) has been extended to study the problem of breaking wave-elastic structure interaction. The method involves strong coupling of Fully Nonlinear Potential Flow Theory (FNPT) and Navier Stokes (NS) equation using a moving overlapping zone in space and Runge kutta 2nd order with a predictor corrector scheme in time. The fluid structure interaction is achieved by a near strongly coupled partitioned procedure. The simulation was performed using Finite Element method (FEM) in the FNPT domain, Particle based method (Improved Meshless Local Petrov Galerkin based on Rankine source, IMPLG_R) in the NS domain and FEM for the structural dynamics part. The advantage of using this approach is due to high computational efficiency. The method has been applied to study the interaction between breaking waves and elastic wall.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Radtke

The present work is concerned with the partitioned solution of the multifeld problem arising from a hierarchical modeling approach to cardiovascular fluid-structure interaction. Different strategies to couple the participating feld solvers are investigated in detail. This includes staggered and parallel coupling algorithms as well as different methods for convergence acceleration, spatial interpolation and temporal extrapolation of coupling quantities. In the developed modeling and simulation approach, a fully resolved model of a segment of the arterial network is coupled to reduced order models in order to account for the influence of the surrounding. There is experimental evidence that hemodynamic quantities such as the wall shear stress promote the progression cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular FSI simulations, that can predict these quantities, are therefore of great interest and can aid in surgical planning and optimization of anastomoses shapes and graft materials. Contents...


Author(s):  
Benjamin Doulcet ◽  
Christophe Devals ◽  
Bernd Nennemann ◽  
Maxime Gauthier ◽  
François Guibault ◽  
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