The numerical simulation of multiphysics problems has grown steadily in recent years. This development is due to both the permanent increase of IT resources and the considerable progress made in modeling, mathematical and numerical analysis of many problems in fluid and solid mechanics. The phenomena related to fluid/structure mechanical coupling occurs in many industrial situations, and the in...

This paper describes a novel hybrid method for fluid simulation of saturating anisotropic porous material via fluid-structure coupling. Our framework employs particle finite element method (PFEM) that not only adopts Lagrangian scheme to model the motion of freely-moving particles, but also produces the extended Delaunay Tessellation to furnish the governing equations with FEM discretization. W...

Complex structures often include hollow parts. These hollow parts constitute the skeleton of the structure and are largely responsible for its global behavior, hence the importance of analyzing them precisely. The method we propose in this paper is a modal method based on the modal analysis of elements of hollow parts. This method does not require nodal degrees of freedom on the boundaries betw...

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a mathematical formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems, where immersed incompressible visco-elastic bodies or boundaries interact with an incompressible fluid. The original numerical scheme associated to the IB method requires a smoothed approximation of the Dirac delta distribution to link the moving Lagrangian domain with the fixed Eulerian on...

Practical engineering problems in heat transfer and fluid flow involve one or more governing equations, together with some boundary conditions over a domain. The domain is often complex and non-uniform. The ability to use a mesh of finite elements to accurately discretise domain of any size and shape makes the finite element method a powerful tool to numerically analyse problems in these areas....

An advanced Finite Element Method is presented which is being applied to simulate fluid flow interacting with a soft structure. Furthermore, the generated sound from fluid flow and structural mechanics is also taken into account. To get a correct model for the acoustic source terms resulting from the fluid flow Lighthill’s analogy is applied, while structural mechanics is coupled to acoustics v...