A sharp interface method for an immersed viscoelastic solid

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2019.109217zbMATH Open1435.76040arXiv1902.02424OpenAlexW2997112799WikidataQ126418104 ScholiaQ126418104MaRDI QIDQ778258FDOQ778258

Authors: Charles Puelz, Boyce E. Griffith 

Publication date: 2 July 2020

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The immersed boundary-finite element method (IBFE) is an approach to describing the dynamics of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. In this formulation, there are discontinuities in the pressure and viscous stress at fluid-structure interfaces. The standard immersed boundary approach, which connects the Lagrangian and Eulerian variables via integral transforms with regularized Dirac delta function kernels, smooths out these discontinuities, which generally leads to low order accuracy. This paper describes an approach to accurately resolve pressure discontinuities for these types of formulations, in which the solid may undergo large deformations. Our strategy is to decompose the physical pressure field into a sum of two pressure-like fields, one defined on the entire computational domain, which includes both the fluid and solid subregions, and one defined only on the solid subregion. Each of these fields is continuous on its domain of definition, which enables high accuracy via standard discretization methods without sacrificing sharp resolution of the pressure discontinuity. Numerical tests demonstrate that this method improves rates of convergence for displacements, velocities, stresses, and pressures, as compared to the conventional IBFE method. Further, it produces much smaller errors at reasonable numbers of degrees of freedom. The performance of this method is tested on several cases with analytic solutions, a nontrivial benchmark problem of incompressible solid mechanics, and an example involving a thick, actively contracting torus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02424

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zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodfluid-structure interactionimmersed boundary methodjump conditionssharp interface method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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Uses Software

• IIMPACK

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