Trimmed simulation of a transport aircraft using fluid-structure coupling

The accurate prediction of the aerodynamic coefficients under cruise conditions is of major importance for assessing the aircraft’s fuel consumption. To this end, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics and flight mechanics have to be considered: on the one hand, the structure elastically deforms under the influence of the flow and a state of...

Validation of the interface-GMRES(R) solution method for fluid-structure interactions

The numerical solution of fluid-structure interactions with the customary subiteration method incurs numerous deficiencies. We validate a recently proposed solution method based on the conjugation of subiteration with a Newton-Krylov method, and demonstrate its superiority and beneficial characteristics.

Efficient Numerical Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction

Numerical solution methods for fluid-structure interaction are of great importance in many engineering disciplines. The computation of fluid-structure interactions is challenging on account of their free-boundary and multi-physics character. The different length and time scale discretization requirements of the fluid and structure subsystems...

Interface-GMRES(R) Acceleration of Subiteration for Fluid-Structure-Interaction Problems

Subiteration forms the basic iterative method for solving the aggregated equations in fluid-structure-interaction problems, in which the fluid and structure equations are solved alternately subject to complementary partitions of the interface conditions. However, this subiteration process can be defective or inadequate, as it is endowed with...