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Our paper proposes an innovative approach for modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI). Our method combines both traditional monolithic and partitioned approaches, creating a hybrid solution that facilitates FSI. At each time iteration,…

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Accurate and efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems remains a central challenge in computational physics. High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer low numerical errors and excellent scalability on…

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Traditional computational fluid dynamics calculates the physical information of the flow field by solving partial differential equations, which takes a long time to calculate and consumes a lot of computational resources. We build a fluid…

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This paper describes a novel partitioned algorithm for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems that couples the motion of rigid bodies and incompressible flow. This is the first partitioned algorithm that remains stable and second-order…

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Simulation of fluid flows is crucial for modeling physical phenomena like meteorology, aerodynamics, and biomedicine. Classical numerical solvers often require fine spatiotemporal grids to satisfy stability, consistency, and convergence…

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Modeling and simulation of High Power Microwave (HPM) breakdown, a multiscale phenomenon, is computationally expensive and requires solving Maxwell's equations (EM solver) coupled with a plasma continuity equation (plasma solver). In this…

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This work addresses research questions arising from the application of geometrically exact beam theory in the context of fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Geometrically exact beam theory has proven to be a computationally efficient way to…

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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…

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We report a novel physics-informed neural framework for reconstructing unsteady fluid-structure interactions (FSI) from sparse, single-phase observations of the flow. Our approach combines a modal surface model with coordinate neural…

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In this article we describe a stable partitioned algorithm that overcomes the added mass instability arising in fluid-structure interactions of light rigid bodies and inviscid compressible flow. The new algorithm is stable even for bodies…

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