Hejlesen, Mads Mølholm

Spietz, Henrik Juul

Walther, Jens Honore

The ability to predict aerodynamic forces, due to the interaction of a fluid flow with a solid body, is central in many fields of engineering and is necessary to identify error-prone structural designs. In bluff-body flows the aerodynamic forces oscillate due to vortex shedding and variations in the oncoming flow. This may lead to structural instability e.g. when the shedding frequency aligns with the natural frequency of the structure. Fluid structure interaction must especially be considered when designing long span bridges. A three dimensional vortex-in-cell method is applied for the direct numerical simulation of the flow past a bodies of arbitrary shape. Vortex methods use a simple formulation where only the trajectories of discrete vortex particles are simulated. TheLagrangian formulation eliminates the CFL type condition that Eulerian methodshave to satisfy. This allows vortex methods to take significantly larger time steps inconvection dominated flows with explicit time integration.As vorticity is a bounded quantity and the velocity field can be calculated for freespace-or periodic boundary conditions, these method allows for a minimized domainand hence minimize computational efforts.Pure particle-vortex methods have the disadvantage of being highly costly. Thecalculation of particle velocities in particle vortex methods has traditionally been doneby directly applying the Biot-Savart law yielding an N2-body problem. However thePoisson equation, that relates the vorticity- to the velocity field, can be solved effi-ciently using a mesh-based solver with local refinement in the boundary layer regions.We present a higher-order particle-mesh vortex method, where particle velocitiesare calculated by solving the Poisson equation on several uniform meshes using FastFourier Transforms. This we combine with an iterative penalization method, thatallows the simulation of external flows past arbitrary geometries in arbitrary motionssuch as bridge decks in forced heave and pitch motio

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