It is well-known that classical Dirichlet-Neumann loosely coupled partitioned schemes for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems are unconditionally unstable for certain combinations of physical and geometric parameters that are relevant in hemodynamics. It was shown in \cite{causin2005added} on a simple test problem, that these instabilities are associated with the so called ``added-mass effect''. By considering the same test problem as in \cite{causin2005added}, the present work shows that a novel, partitioned, loosely coupled scheme, recently introduced in \cite{MarSun}, called the kinematically coupled β-scheme, does not suffer from the added mass effect for any β∈[0,1], and is unconditionally stable for all the parameters in the problem. Numerical results showing unconditional stability are presented for a full, nonlinearly coupled benchmark FSI problem, first considered in \cite{formaggia2001coupling}.
@article{arxiv.1205.6887,
title = {Stability of the kinematically coupled \beta-scheme for fluid-structure interaction problems in hemodynamics},
author = {Suncica Canic and Boris Muha and Martina Bukac},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6887},
year = {2014}
}