The crashworthiness of helicopter fuel tank is vital to the survivability of the passengers and structures. In order to understand and improve the crashworthiness of the soft fuel tank of helicopter during the crash, ...
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The crashworthiness of helicopter fuel tank is vital to the survivability of the passengers and structures. In order to understand and improve the crashworthiness of the soft fuel tank of helicopter during the crash, this paper investigated the dynamic behavior of the nylon woven fabric composite fuel tank striking on the ground. A fluid-structure interaction finite element model of the fuel tank based on the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method was constructed to elucidate the dynamic failure behavior. The drop impact tests were conducted to validate the accuracy of the numerical simulation. Good agreement was achieved between the experimental and numerical results of the impact force with the ground. The influences of the impact velocity, the impact angle, the thickness of the fuel tank wall and the volume fraction of water on the dynamic responses of the dropped fuel tank were studied. The results indicated that the corner of the fuel tank is the most vulnerable location during the impact with ground.
A fluid-structure interaction (FSI) methodology is presented for simulating elastic bodies embedded and/or encapsulating viscous incompressible fluid. The fluid solver is based on finite volume and the large eddy simu...
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A fluid-structure interaction (FSI) methodology is presented for simulating elastic bodies embedded and/or encapsulating viscous incompressible fluid. The fluid solver is based on finite volume and the large eddy simulation approach to account for turbulent flow. The structural dynamic solver is based on the combined finite element method-discrete element method (FEM-DEM). The two solvers are tied up using an immersed boundary method (IBM) iterative algorithm to improve information transfer between the two solvers. The FSI solver is applied to submerged vegetation stems and blades of small-scale horizontal axis kinetic turbines. Both bodies are slender and of cylinder-like shape. While the stem mostly experiences a dominant drag force, the blade experiences a dominant lift force. Following verification cases of a single-stem deformation and a spinning Magnus blade in laminar flows, vegetation flexible stems and flexible rotor blades are analysed, while they are embedded in turbulent flow. It is shown that the single stem's flexibility has higher effect on the flow as compared to the rigid stem than when in a dense vegetation patch. Making a marine kinetic turbine rotor flexible has the potential of significantly reducing the power production due to undesired twisting and bending of the blades. These studies point to the importance of FSI in flow problems where there is a noticeable deflection of a cylinder-shaped body and the capability of coupling FEM-DEM with flow solver through IBM.
We develop a novel large-scale kinematic model for animating the left ventricle (LV) wall and use this model to drive the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) between the ensuing blood flow and a mechanical heart valve p...
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We develop a novel large-scale kinematic model for animating the left ventricle (LV) wall and use this model to drive the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) between the ensuing blood flow and a mechanical heart valve prosthesis implanted in the aortic position of an anatomic LV/aorta configuration. The kinematic model is of lumped type and employs a cell-based, FitzHugh-Nagumo framework to simulate the motion of the LV wall in response to an excitation wavefront propagating along the heart wall. The emerging large-scale LV wall motion exhibits complex contractile mechanisms that include contraction (twist) and expansion (untwist). The kinematic model is shown to yield global LV motion parameters that are well within the physiologic range throughout the cardiac cycle. The FSI between the leaflets of the mechanical heart valve and the blood flow driven by the dynamic LV wall motion and mitral inflow is simulated using the curvilinear immersed boundary (CURVIB) method (Ge and Sotiropoulos, 2007;Borazjani et al., 2008) [1,2] implemented in conjunction with a domain decomposition approach. The computed results show that the simulated flow patterns are in good qualitative agreement with in vivo observations. The simulations also reveal complex kinematics of the valve leaflets, thus, underscoring the need for patient-specific simulations of heart valve prosthesis and other cardiac devices. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The response of wall stress to the elasticity of each layer in the aorta wall was investigated to understand the role of the different elastic properties of layers in the aortic dissection. The complex mechanical inte...
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The response of wall stress to the elasticity of each layer in the aorta wall was investigated to understand the role of the different elastic properties of layers in the aortic dissection. The complex mechanical interaction between blood flow and wall dynamics in a three-dimensional arch model of an aorta was studied by means of computational coupled fluid-structure interaction analysis. The results show that stresses in the media layer are highest in three layers and that shear stress is concentrated in the media layer near to the adventitia layer. Hence, the difference in the elastic properties of the layers could be responsible for the pathological state in which a tear splits across the tunica media to near to the tunica adventitia and the dissection spreads along the laminar planes of the media layer where it is near the adventitia layer.
fluid-structure interaction(FSI)problems in microchannels play prominent roles in many engineering *** present study is an effort towards the simulation of flow in microchannel considering *** boundary of the microcha...
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fluid-structure interaction(FSI)problems in microchannels play prominent roles in many engineering *** present study is an effort towards the simulation of flow in microchannel considering *** boundary of the microchannel is assumed to be rigid and the bottom boundary,which is modeled as a Bernoulli-Euler beam,is simulated by size-dependent beam elements for finite element method(FEM)based on a modified couple stress *** lattice Boltzmann method(LBM)using D2Q13 LB model is coupled to the FEM in order to solve fluid part of FSI *** the present study,the governing equations are non-dimensionalized and the set of dimensionless groups is exhibited to show their effects on micro-beam *** numerical results show that the displacements of the micro-beam predicted by the size-dependent beam element are smaller than those by the classical beam element.
In this paper, an implicit coupling algorithm for fluid-structure interaction problems with under-time steps for the solid is presented. Its implementation on two configurations is achieved by using the CASTEM finite-...
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In this paper, an implicit coupling algorithm for fluid-structure interaction problems with under-time steps for the solid is presented. Its implementation on two configurations is achieved by using the CASTEM finite-elements code. First, the free oscillations of a cylinder in an annular fluid domain where its movement is determined by the coupled fluid-solid action is considered in the case of viscous fluid. It should be noted that the implicit coupling algorithm gives the best prediction of the structure oscillations. The under-time steps for the solid are introduced in order to obtain better results. Then, an application whose final objective is to model a floating barrage is studied. The main goal of this application is to predict the displacements of a ring completely immersed and anchored by a cable to the lower boundary of the fluid domain. The finite-element discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations in the ALE formulation is used
This paper presents two domain decomposition techniques for fixed grid fluid-structure interaction simulations that can be applied to the interaction of general structures with incompressible flows. One approach is ba...
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This paper presents two domain decomposition techniques for fixed grid fluid-structure interaction simulations that can be applied to the interaction of general structures with incompressible flows. One approach is based on an overlapping domain decomposition idea while the other uses non-overlapping domains. The first technique combines a fixed grid Chimera approach with arbitrary Lagrangean Eulerian based methods, the second one is based on an eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) strategy. Both techniques are used in a partitioned and strong coupling fluid-structure framework. The usage of such fixed-grid methods considerably increases the range of possible applications. Several test examples demonstrate key features of both methods.
fluid-structure interaction (FSI) becomes more and more the focus of computational engineering in Petroleum and Nuclear Industry in the last years. These problems are computer time consuming and require new stable and...
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fluid-structure interaction (FSI) becomes more and more the focus of computational engineering in Petroleum and Nuclear Industry in the last years. These problems are computer time consuming and require new stable and accurate coupling algorithms to be solved. For the last decades, the new development of coupling algorithms, and the increasing of computer performance have allowed to solve some of these problems and some more physical applications that has not been accessible in the past;in the future this trend is supposed to continue to take into account more realistic problem. In this presentation, numerical simulation using FSI capabilities in LS-DYNA, of hydrodynamic ram pressure effect occurring in nuclear industry is presented.
Primary Objective: Closed brain injuries are a common danger in contact sports and motorized vehicular collisions. Mild closed brain injuries, such as concussions, are not easily visualized by computed imaging or scan...
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Primary Objective: Closed brain injuries are a common danger in contact sports and motorized vehicular collisions. Mild closed brain injuries, such as concussions, are not easily visualized by computed imaging or scans. Having a comprehensive head/brain model and using fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations enable us to see the exact movement of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) under such conditions and to identify the areas of brain most affected. Research Design: The presented work is based on the first FSI model capable of simulating the interaction between the CSF flow and brain. Methods and Procedures: FSI analysis combining smoothed-particle hydrodynamics and high-order finite-element method is used. Main Outcomes and Results: The interaction between the CSF and brain under rapid acceleration and deceleration is demonstrated. The cushioning effect of the fluid and its effect on brain are shown. Conclusions: The capability to locate areas (down to the exact gyri and sulci) of the brain the most affected under given loading conditions, and therefore assess the possible damage to the brain and consequently predict the symptoms, is shown.
We address two difficult points in the simulation of blood flows in compliant vessels: the fluid and structure meshes generation and the solution of the fluid-structure problem with large displacements. The proposed s...
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We address two difficult points in the simulation of blood flows in compliant vessels: the fluid and structure meshes generation and the solution of the fluid-structure problem with large displacements. The proposed strategy allows to perform realistic simulations on geometries coming from medical imaging. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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