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Journal Articles Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Year : 2015

Nitsche-XFEM for the coupling of an incompressible fluid with immersed thin-walled structures

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a Nitsche-XFEM method for fluid-structure interaction problems involving a thin-walled elastic structure (Lagrangian formalism) immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid (Eulerian formalism). The fluid domain is discretized with an unstructured mesh not fitted to the solid mid-surface mesh. Weak and strong discontinuities across the interface are allowed for the velocity and pressure, respectively. The fluid-solid coupling is enforced consistently using a variant of Nitsche's method with cut-elements. Robustness with respect to arbitrary interface intersections is guaranteed through suitable stabilization. Several coupling schemes with different degrees of fluid-solid time splitting (implicit, semi-implicit and explicit) are investigated. A series of numerical tests in 2D, involving static and moving interfaces, illustrates the performance of the different methods proposed.
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hal-01149225 , version 1 (06-05-2015)
hal-01149225 , version 2 (07-05-2015)
hal-01149225 , version 3 (17-12-2015)

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Frédéric Alauzet, Benoit Fabrèges, Miguel Angel Fernández, Mikel Landajuela. Nitsche-XFEM for the coupling of an incompressible fluid with immersed thin-walled structures. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2015, To appear. ⟨hal-01149225v2⟩
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