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AFSI is a novel, open-source fluid-structure interaction (FSI) solver that extends the capabilities of the FEniCS finite element library through an immersed boundary (IB) framework. Designed to simulate large deformations in hyperelastic…

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We present a consistent approach that allows to solve challenging general nonlinear fluid-structure-contact interaction (FSCI) problems. The underlying continuous formulation includes both "no-slip" fluid-structure interaction as well as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Christoph Ager , Alexander Seitz , Wolfgang A. Wall

In this article, we formulate a monolithic optimal control method for general time-dependent Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) systems with large solid deformation. We consider a displacement-tracking type of objective with a constraint of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yongxing Wang

We present a monolithic approach to large-deformation fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems that allows for choosing fully implicit, single-step and single-stage time integration schemes in the structure and fluid field independently,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Matthias Mayr , Thomas Klöppel , Wolfgang A. Wall , Michael W. Gee

Partitioned methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) involve solving the structural and flow problems sequentially. These methods allow for separate settings for the fluid and solid subsystems and thus modularity, enabling reuse of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-05 A. Aissa-Berraies , Ferdinando A. Auricchio , Gertjan van Zwieten , E. Harald van Brummelen

We present a novel framework inspired by the Immersed Boundary Method for predicting the fluid-structure interaction of complex structures immersed in flows with moderate to high Reynolds numbers. The main novelties of the proposed…

We present a novel partitioned iterative formulation for modeling of fluid-structure interaction in two-phase flows. The variational formulation consists of a stable and robust integration of three blocks of differential equations, viz.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev K. Jaiman

This work presents a partitioned solution procedure to compute shape gradients in fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using black-box adjoint solvers. Special attention is paid to project the gradients onto the undeformed configuration. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Reza Najian Asl , Ihar Antonau , Aditya Ghantasala , Wulf G. Dettmer , Roland Wuchner , Kai-Uwe Bletzinger

The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the state of the art in the finite element approach to the Immersed Boundary Method (FE-IBM) which has been investigated by the authors during the last decade. In a unified setting, we present…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

We analyze numerical approximations for axisymmetric two-phase flow in the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) framework. We consider a parametric formulation for the evolving fluid interface in terms of a one-dimensional generating curve.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

In this article, we analyze and numerically assess a new fictitious domain method for fluid-structure interactions in two and three dimensions. The distinguishing feature of the proposed method is that it only solves for one velocity field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Yongxing Wang , Peter K. Jimack , Mark A. Walkley

The problem of multiphase materials (fluid or solid) interacting with the rigid body structure is studied by proposing a novel VMS-FEM (variational multi-scale finite element method) in the Eulerian framework using the fixed mesh. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Tianyu Li

The coupling interactions between deformable structures and unsteady fluid flows occur across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales in many engineering applications. These fluid-structure interactions (FSI) pose significant challenges…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-04 Aditya G. Nair , Samuel B. Douglass , Nitish Arya

In this paper we construct a novel technique for eliminating and recovering the pressure for a fluid-structure interaction model. This pressure elimination methodology is valid for general bounded Lipschitz domains. The specific…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 George Avalos , Yuhao Mu

Cable subsystems characterized by long, slender, and flexible structural elements are featured in numerous engineering systems. In each of them, interaction between an individual cable and the surrounding fluid is inevitable. Such a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Daniel Z. Huang , Philip Avery , Charbel Farhat

We present the implementation of a solution scheme for fluid-structure interaction problems via the finite element software library deal.II. The solution scheme is an immersed finite element method in which two independent discretizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-14 Luca Heltai , Saswati Roy , Francesco Costanzo

We present a general simulation approach for incompressible fluid--structure interactions in a fully Eulerian framework using the reference map technique (RMT). The approach is suitable for modeling one or more rigid or finitely-deformable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xiaolin Wang , Ken Kamrin , Chris H. Rycroft

We review the main features of an unfitted finite element method for interface and fluid-structure interaction problems based on a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. We recall our theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

Topology optimization methods face serious challenges when applied to structural design with fluid-structure interaction (FSI) loads, specially for high Reynolds fluid flow. This paper devises an explicit boundary method that employs…