Comparison of the conservative and a consistent approach for the coupling of non-matching meshes

In fluid-structure interaction simulations the meshes at the fluid-structure interface usually do not match, because of the different mesh requirements for the flow and structure. The exchange of data over the discrete interface becomes then far from trivial. In this paper we investigate the difference in accuracy and efficiency between a...

Two level algorithms for partitioned fluid-structure interaction computations

In this paper we use the multigrid algorithm - commonly used to improve the efficiency of the flow solver - to improve the efficiency of partitioned fluid-structure interaction iterations. Coupling not only the structure with the fine flow mesh, but also with the coarse flow mesh (often present due to the multigrid scheme) leads to a significant...