Nonlinear dynamic fluid-structure interaction calculations with coupled finite element and finite volume programs [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Defense, 1994.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 11 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Defense, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Two- and three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction computer programs for the simulation of nonlinear dynamics were developed and applied to a number of problems. The programs were created by coupling Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite volume fluid dynamics programs with strictly Lagrangian finite element structural dynamics programs. The resulting coupled programs can use either fully explicit or implicit time integration. The implicit time integration is accomplished by iterations of the fluid dynamics pressure solver and the structural dynamics system solver. The coupled programs have been used to solve problems involving incompressible fluids, membrane and shell elements, compressible multiphase flows, explosions in both air and water, and large displacements. In this paper, we present the approach used for the coupling and describe test problems that verify the two-dimensional programs against an experiment and an analytical linear problem. The experiment involves an explosion underwater near an instrumented thin steel plate. The analytical linear problem is the vibration of an infinite cylinder surrounded by an incompressible fluid to a given radius.

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E 1.99:la-ur--94-2443
E 1.99: conf-941142--15
conf-941142--15
la-ur--94-2443

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Published through SciTech Connect.
08/01/1994.
"la-ur--94-2443"
" conf-941142--15"
"DE94016204"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers` winter annual meeting,Chicago, IL (United States),6-11 Nov 1994.
Lewis, M.W.; Bishop, S.; Meier, R.W.; Kashiwa, B.A.

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W-7405-ENG-36

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