Fixed-Point Fluid structure interaction analysis BASED ON geometrically exact approach

Abstract

The fluid structure interaction analysis for structures exhibiting large deformations is carried out by using a strong coupling method, in which a fixed point method with Aitken’s dynamic relaxation is employed to accelerate convergence of the coupling iteration, and geometrically exact beam approach initiated by Simo is adopted to simulate the nonlinear flexible beam models. An improved implicit time integration algorithm is given to improve the computation accuracy of structural dynamics. To verify the validity of the fixed-point method in the compressible flows which is usually used in incompressible fluid, it is applied for flutter analysis of AGARD 445.6 wing in the transonic regime. The case of flow-induced vibration of a flexible beam demonstrates that the approach based on geometrically exact beam theory is suitable for the fluid structure interaction analysis and the fixed-point method with Aitken’s relaxation is of great efficiency and robustness in the FSI computation.

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