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A novel 3D variational aeroelastic framework for flexible multibody dynamics: Application to bat-like flapping dynamics
We present a novel three-dimensional (3D) variational aeroelastic framework
for flapping wing with a flexible multibody system subjected to an external
incompressible turbulent flow. The proposed aeroelastic framework consists of a
three-dimensional fluid solver with delayed detached eddy simulation (DDES) and
a nonlinear monolithic elastic structural solver for the flexible multibody
system with constraints. Radial basis function (RBF) is applied in this
framework to transfer the aerodynamic forces and structural displacements
across the discrete non-matching interface meshes while satisfying a global
energy conservation. The fluid equations are discretized using a stabilized
Petrov-Galerkin method in space and the generalized- approach is
employed to integrate the solution in time. The flexible multibody system is
solved by using geometrically exact co-rotational finite element method and an
energy decaying scheme is used to achieve numerical stability of the multibody
solver with constraints. A nonlinear iterative force correction (NIFC) scheme
is applied in a staggered partitioned iterative manner to maintain the
numerical stability of aeroelastic coupling with strong added mass effect. An
isotropic aluminum wing with flapping motion is simulated via the proposed
aeroelastic framework and the accuracy of the coupled solution is validated
with the available experimental data. We next study the robustness and
reliability of the 3D flexible multibody aeroelastic framework for an
anisotropic flapping wing flight involving battens and membranes with composite
material and compare against the experimental results. Finally, we demonstrate
the aeroelastic framework for a bat-like wing and examine the effects of
flexibility on the flapping wing dynamics.Comment: 53 page
An immersed boundary method for fluid--structure--acoustics interactions involving large deformations and complex geometries
This paper presents an immersed boundary (IB) method for
fluid--structure--acoustics interactions involving large deformations and
complex geometries. In this method, the fluid dynamics is solved by a finite
difference method where the temporal, viscous and convective terms are
respectively discretized by the third-order Runge-Kutta scheme, the
fourth-order central difference scheme and a fifth-order W/TENO
(Weighted/Targeted Essentially Non-oscillation) scheme. Without loss of
generality, a nonlinear flexible plate is considered here, and is solved by a
finite element method based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation. The
no-slip boundary condition at the fluid--structure interface is achieved by
using a diffusion-interface penalty IB method. With the above proposed method,
the aeroacoustics field generated by the moving boundaries and the associated
flows are inherently solved. In order to validate and verify the current
method, several benchmark cases are conducted: acoustic waves scattered from a
stationary cylinder in a quiescent flow, sound generation by a stationary and a
rotating cylinder in a uniform flow, sound generation by an insect in hovering
flight, deformation of a red blood cell induced by acoustic waves and acoustic
waves scattered by a stationary sphere. The comparison of the sound scattered
by a cylinder shows that the present IB--WENO scheme, a simple approach, has an
excellent performance which is even better than the implicit IB--lattice
Boltzmann method. For the sound scattered by a sphere, the IB--TENO scheme has
a lower dissipation compared with the IB--WENO scheme. Applications of this
technique to model fluid-structure-acoustics interactions of flapping foils
mimicking an insect wing section during forward flight and flapping foil energy
harvester are also presented, considering the effects of foil shape and
flexibility
Continuous-Scale Kinetic Fluid Simulation
Kinetic approaches, i.e., methods based on the lattice Boltzmann equations,
have long been recognized as an appealing alternative for solving
incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in computational fluid dynamics.
However, such approaches have not been widely adopted in graphics mainly due to
the underlying inaccuracy, instability and inflexibility. In this paper, we try
to tackle these problems in order to make kinetic approaches practical for
graphical applications. To achieve more accurate and stable simulations, we
propose to employ the non-orthogonal central-moment-relaxation model, where we
develop a novel adaptive relaxation method to retain both stability and
accuracy in turbulent flows. To achieve flexibility, we propose a novel
continuous-scale formulation that enables samples at arbitrary resolutions to
easily communicate with each other in a more continuous sense and with loose
geometrical constraints, which allows efficient and adaptive sample
construction to better match the physical scale. Such a capability directly
leads to an automatic sample construction which generates static and dynamic
scales at initialization and during simulation, respectively. This effectively
makes our method suitable for simulating turbulent flows with arbitrary
geometrical boundaries. Our simulation results with applications to smoke
animations show the benefits of our method, with comparisons for justification
and verification.Comment: 17 pages, 17 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization
and Computer Graphic
Monolithic cut finite element based approaches for fluid-structure interaction
Cut finite element method (CutFEM) based approaches towards challenging
fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are proposed. The different considered
methods combine the advantages of competing novel Eulerian (fixed-grid) and
established Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) (moving mesh) finite element
formulations for the fluid. The objective is to highlight the benefit of using
cut finite element techniques for moving domain problems and to demonstrate
their high potential with regards to simplified mesh generation, treatment of
large structural motions in surrounding flows, capturing boundary layers, their
ability to deal with topological changes in the fluid phase and their general
straightforward extensibility to other coupled multiphysics problems. In
addition to a pure fixed-grid FSI method, also advanced fluid domain
decomposition techniques are considered rendering in highly flexible
discretization methods for the FSI problem. All stabilized formulations include
Nitsche-based weak coupling of the phases supported by the ghost penalty
technique for the flow field. For the resulting systems, monolithic solution
strategies are presented. Various 2D and 3D FSI-cases of different complexity
validate the methods and demonstrate their capabilities and limitations in
different situations.Comment: 41 pages, 16 figure
Fluid-structure interaction simulations of venous valves: a monolithic ALE method for large structural displacements
Venous valves are bicuspidal valves that ensure that blood in veins only
flows back to the heart. To prevent retrograde blood flow, the two intraluminal
leaflets meet in the center of the vein and occlude the vessel. In
fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations of venous valves, the large
structural displacements may lead to mesh deteriorations and entanglements,
causing instabilities of the solver and, consequently, the numerical solution
to diverge. In this paper, we propose an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE)
scheme for FSI simulations designed to solve these instabilities. A monolithic
formulation for the FSI problem is considered and, due to the complexity of the
operators, the exact Jacobian matrix is evaluated using automatic
differentiation. The method relies on the introduction of a staggered in time
velocity %in the discretization scheme to improve stability, and on fictitious
springs to model the contact force of the valve leaflets. Since the large
structural displacements may compromise the quality of the fluid mesh as well,
a smoother fluid displacement, obtained with the introduction of a scaling
factor that measures the distance of a fluid element from the valve leaflet
tip, guarantees that there are no mesh entanglements in the fluid domain. To
further improve stability, a Streamline Upwind Petrov Galerkin (SUPG) method is
employed. The proposed ALE scheme is applied to a 2D model of a venous valve.
The presented simulations show that the proposed method deals well with the
large structural displacements of the problem, allowing a reconstruction of the
valve behavior in both the opening and closing phase
3D Common-Refinement Method for Non-Matching Meshes in Partitioned Variational Fluid-Structure Analysis
We present a three-dimensional (3D) common-refinement method for non-matching
meshes between discrete non-overlapping subdomains of incompressible fluid and
nonlinear hyperelastic structure. To begin, we first investigate the accuracy
of common-refinement method (CRM) to satisfy traction equilibrium condition
along the fluid-elastic interface with non-matching meshes. We systematically
assess the accuracy of CRM against the matching grid solution by varying grid
mismatch between the fluid and solid meshes over a cylindrical tubular elastic
body. We demonstrate second-order accuracy of CRM through uniform refinements
of fluid and solid meshes along the interface. We then extend the error
analysis to transient data transfer across non-matching meshes between fluid
and solid solvers. We show that the common-refinement discretization across
non-matching fluid-structure grids yields accurate transfer of the physical
quantities across the fluid-solid interface. We next solve a 3D benchmark
problem of a cantilevered hyperelastic plate behind a circular bluff body and
verify the accuracy of coupled solutions with respect to the available solution
in the literature. By varying the solid interface resolution, we generate
various non-matching grid ratios and quantify the accuracy of CRM for the
nonlinear structure interacting with a laminar flow. We illustrate that the CRM
with the partitioned NIFC treatment is stable for low solid-to-fluid density
ratio and non-matching meshes. Finally, we demonstrate the 3D parallel
implementation of common-refinement with NIFC scheme for a realistic
engineering problem of drilling riser undergoing complex vortex-induced
vibration with strong added mass effects.Comment: 38 pages, 16 figure
A parallel fluid solid coupling model using LAMMPS and Palabos based on the immersed boundary method
The study of viscous fluid flow coupled with rigid or deformable solids has
many applications in biological and engineering problems, e.g., blood cell
transport, drug delivery, and particulate flow. We developed a partitioned
approach to solve this coupled Multiphysics problem. The fluid motion was
solved by Palabos (Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Solver), while the solid
displacement and deformation was simulated by LAMMPS (Large-scale
Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator). The coupling was achieved
through the immersed boundary method (IBM). The code modeled both rigid and
deformable solids exposed to flow. The code was validated with the Jeffery
orbits of an ellipsoid particle in shear flow, red blood cell stretching test,
and effective blood viscosity flowing in tubes. It demonstrated essentially
linear scaling from 512 to 8192 cores for both strong and weak scaling cases.
The computing time for the coupling increased with the solid fraction. An
example of the fluid-solid coupling was given for flexible filaments (drug
carriers) transport in a flowing blood cell suspensions, highlighting the
advantages and capabilities of the developed code.Comment: For high resolution figure, see
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187775031730981
Efficient Variable-Coefficient Finite-Volume Stokes Solvers
We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point
linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady
variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on
the success of using the classical projection method as a preconditioner for
the coupled velocity-pressure system [B. E. Griffith, J. Comp. Phys., 228
(2009), pp. 75657595], as well as established techniques for steady and
unsteady Stokes flow in the finite-element literature, we construct
preconditioners that employ independent generalized Helmholtz and Poisson
solvers for the velocity and pressure subproblems. We demonstrate that only a
single cycle of a standard geometric multigrid algorithm serves as an effective
inexact solver for each of these subproblems. Contrary to traditional wisdom,
we find that the Stokes problem can be solved nearly as efficiently as the
independent pressure and velocity subproblems, making the overall cost of
solving the Stokes system comparable to the cost of classical projection or
fractional step methods for incompressible flow, even for steady flow and in
the presence of large density and viscosity contrasts. Two of the five
preconditioners considered here are found to be robust to GMRES restarts and to
increasing problem size, making them suitable for large-scale problems. Our
work opens many possibilities for constructing novel unsplit temporal
integrators for finite-volume spatial discretizations of the equations of low
Mach and incompressible flow dynamics.Comment: Submitted to CiC
A stable partitioned FSI algorithm for incompressible flow and deforming beams
An added-mass partitioned (AMP) algorithm is described for solving
fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems coupling incompressible flows with
thin elastic structures undergoing finite deformations. The new AMP scheme is
fully second-order accurate and stable, without sub-time-step iterations, even
for very light structures when added-mass effects are strong. The fluid,
governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, is solved in
velocity-pressure form using a fractional-step method; large deformations are
treated with a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian approach on deforming composite grids.
The motion of the thin structure is governed by a generalized Euler-Bernoulli
beam model, and these equations are solved in a Lagrangian frame using two
approaches, one based on finite differences and the other on finite elements.
Special treatment of the AMP condition is required to couple the finite-element
beam solver with the finite-difference-based fluid solver, and two coupling
approaches are described. A normal-mode stability analysis is performed for a
linearized model problem involving a beam separating two fluid domains, and it
is shown that the AMP scheme is stable independent of the ratio of the mass of
the fluid to that of the structure. A traditional partitioned (TP) scheme using
a Dirichlet-Neumann coupling for the same model problem is shown to be
unconditionally unstable if the added mass of the fluid is too large. A series
of benchmark problems of increasing complexity are considered to illustrate the
behavior of the AMP algorithm, and to compare the behavior with that of the TP
scheme. The results of all these benchmark problems verify the stability and
accuracy of the AMP scheme. Results for one benchmark problem modeling blood
flow in a deforming artery are also compared with corresponding results
available in the literature
A variational flexible multibody formulation for partitioned fluid-structure interaction: Application to bat-inspired drones and unmanned air-vehicles
We present a three-dimensional (3D) partitioned aeroelastic formulation for a
flexible multibody system interacting with incompressible turbulent fluid flow.
While the incompressible Navier-Stokes system is discretized using a stabilized
Petrov-Galerkin procedure, the multibody structural system consists of a
generic interaction of multiple components such as rigid body, beams and
flexible thin shells along with various types of joints and connections among
them. A co-rotational framework is utilized for the category of small strain
problems where the displacement of the body is decomposed into a rigid body
rotation and a small strain component. This assumption simplifies the
structural equations and allows for the incorporation of multiple bodies (rigid
as well as flexible) in the system. The displacement and rotation constraints
at the joints are imposed by a Lagrange multiplier method. The equilibrium
conditions at the fluid-structure interface are satisfied by the transfer of
tractions and structural displacements via the radial basis function approach,
which is globally conservative. For the coupled stability in low
structure-to-fluid mass ratio regimes, a nonlinear iterative force correction
scheme is employed in the partitioned staggered predictor-corrector scheme. The
convergence and generality of the radial basis function mapping are analyzed by
carrying out systematic error analysis of the transfer of fluid traction across
the non-matching fluid-structure interface where a third-order of convergence
is observed. The proposed aeroelastic framework is then validated by
considering a flow across a flexible pitching plate configuration with
serration at the trailing edge. Finally, we demonstrate the flow across a
flexible flapping wing of a bat modeling the bone fingers as beams and the
flexible membrane as thin shells in the multibody system along with the joints.Comment: 34 pages, 20 figure
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