A PARALLEL PARTITIONED APPROACH ON FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION SIMULATION USING THE MULTISCALE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE COUPLING LIBRARY

Wendi Liu, Wei Wang, Alex Skillen, Stephen M. Longshaw, Charles Moulinec, David R. Emerson

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Abstract

Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) is a phenomenon that appears in a wide range of scientific research and engineering applications at different spatial and temporal scales. There are many in-house/commercial solvers capable of modelling FSI, but high numerical robustness and high scalability codes are still in demand. In this study, a numerical framework for FSI simulations has been developed using a partitioned approach aimed at both high numerical robustness and good computational scalability. Open-source software is used for each component of the coupled solution, with OpenFOAM and FEniCS adopted to simulate the computational fluid dynamics and computational structural mechanics, respectively. A coupling interface between the fluid and structural computational domains is realised using the open-source Multiscale Universal Interface (MUI) scientific code coupling library. To achieve a tight and stable coupling, various FSI coupling algorithms have been implemented in the MUI. The behaviour of this framework has been assessed for simulations of a blunt trailing edge hydrofoil at different working conditions with vortex-shedding induced vibration.

Original languageEnglish
JournalWorld Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress
Volume1400
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event14th World Congress of Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress, WCCM-ECCOMAS 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 11 Jan 202115 Jan 2021

Keywords

  • Fluid-Structure Interaction
  • Hydrofoil
  • Multiscale Universal Interface Coupling Library
  • Partitioned Approach

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