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We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem involving a viscous, incompressible fluid flow, modeled by the 2D Navier-Stokes equations, through a thin deformable elastic tube, displacement of which is not known a priori. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Krutika Tawri , Nash Ward

In this paper, we present a novel approach to model the fluid/solid interaction forces in a direct solver of the Navier-Stokes equations based on the volume of fluid interface tracking method. The key ingredient of the model is the explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kyle Mahady , Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic

We study a nonlinear, unsteady, moving boundary, fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem arising in modeling blood flow through elastic and viscoelastic arteries. The fluid flow, which is driven by the time-dependent pressure data, is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Boris Muha , Suncica Canic

A new simulation method for solving fluid-structure coupling problems has been developed. All the basic equations are numerically solved on a fixed Cartesian grid using a finite difference scheme. A volume-of-fluid formulation (Hirt and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kazuyasu Sugiyama , Satoshi Ii , Shintaro Takeuchi , Shu Takagi , Yoichiro Matsumoto

The computational modeling of many engineering problems using the Finite Element method involves the modeling of two or more bodies that meet through an interface. The interface can be physical, as in multi-physics and contact problems, or…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-09-30 G. Haikal

We consider the method of mappings for performing shape optimization for unsteady fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. In this work, we focus on the numerical implementation. We model the optimization problem such that it takes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Johannes Haubner , Michael Ulbrich

In this work, we develop a cut-based unfitted finite element formulation for solving nonlinear, nonstationary fluid-structure interaction with contact in Eulerian coordinates. In the Eulerian description fluid flow modeled by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-20 Timm Krüger , Stefan Frijters , Florian Günther , Badr Kaoui , Jens Harting

In this paper, we present a novel interface-driven adaptive variational procedure using a fully Eulerian description of fluid-structure interaction. The proposed fully-Eulerian procedure involves a fixed background unstructured mesh on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Biswajeet Rath , Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev K. Jaiman

We propose a novel fluid-structure interaction (FSI) scheme using the entropic multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann (KBC) model for the fluid domain in combination with a nonlinear finite element solver for the structural part. We show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-28 Benedikt Dorschner , Shyam S. Chikatamarla , Ilya V. Karlin

We present a monolithic finite element formulation for (nonlinear) fluid-structure interaction in Eulerian coordinates. For the discretization we employ an unfitted finite element method based on inf-sup stable finite elements. So-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Pengfei Ma , Li Cai , Xuan Wang , Hao Gao

Simulation approaches for fluid-structure-contact interaction, especially if requested to be consistent even down to the real contact scenarios, belong to the most challenging and still unsolved problems in computational mechanics. The main…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Christoph Ager , Benedikt Schott , Anh-Tu Vuong , Alexander Popp , Wolfgang A. Wall

We present a new model and a novel loosely coupled partitioned numerical scheme modeling fluid-structure interaction (FSI) in blood flow allowing non-zero longitudinal displacement. Arterial walls are modeled by a {linearly viscoelastic,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Martina Bukac , Suncica Canic , Roland Glowinski , Josip Tambaca , Annalisa Quaini

We introduce an Eulerian approach for problems involving one or more soft solids immersed in a fluid, which permits mechanical interactions between all phases. The reference map variable is exploited to simulate finite-deformation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Boris Valkov , Chris H. Rycroft , Ken Kamrin

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

We recently derived the unified continuum and variational multiscale formulation for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using the Gibbs free energy. Restricting our attention to vascular FSI, we now reduce this arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Ingrid S. Lan , Ju Liu , Weiguang Yang , Alison L. Marsden

We develop a finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on so called composite surfaces that are built up out of a finite number of surfaces with boundaries that fit together nicely in the sense that the intersection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Peter Hansbo , Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

In this paper a new monolithic Eulerian formulation in the framework of non-classical continuum is presented for the analysis of fluid-strucuture interaction problems. In this respect, Cosserat continuum theory taking into account the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Nazim Hussain , Muhammad Sabeel Khan , Lisheng Liu

We design and analyse a Nitsche method for contact problems. Compared to the seminal work of Chouly and Hild (A Nitsche-based method for unilateral contact problems: numerical analysis. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 51 (2013), no. 2) our method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson