Computational Aeroelasticity

PROJECT TITLE: COUPLING ISSUES IN COMPUTATIONAL AEROELASTICITY

PARTICIPANTS: RAJEEV JAIMAN (PHD), HEATH DEWEY (MS), BRAD ROE (MS), PROF. ERIC LOTH (U. ILLINOIS), PROF. X. (JIM) JIAO (U. STONY BROOK), PROF. ANDREAS HASELBACHER (U. FLORIDA) AND PROF. PHILIPPE GEUBELLE

SUPPORT: DOE/ASC CENTER FOR THE SIMULATION OF ADVANCED ROCKETS, COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The accurate and conservative treatment of load transfer across the fluid/structure interface plays a key role in the accuracy of the overall aeroelastic problem. this project aims at the development and assessment of new load transfer and temporal coupling schemes for transient fluid/structure interaction problems characterized by non-matching interface discretizations. in particular, we investigate a novel load transfer scheme, referred to as the common refinement scheme, which provides substantial improvements in the accuracy of the load transfer scheme compared with load transfer schemes available in the literature.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Jaiman, R. K., Jiao, X., Geubelle, P. H. and Loth, E.  (2005) “Assessment of conservative load transfer for fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes”. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Eng., 64, 2014-2038.

  2. Jaiman, R. K., Jiao, X., Geubelle, P. H. and Loth, E.  (2006) “Conservative load transfer along curved fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes”. J. Computational Physics, 218:1, 372-397.

  3. Roe, B., Jaiman, A., Haselbacher, A. and Geubelle, P. H. (2008) “Combined interface boundary condition method for coupled thermal simulations”. Int. J. Numer. Methods in Fluids, 57:3, 329-354. DOI: 10.1002/fld.1637.

  4. Jaiman, R., Geubelle, P. H., Loth, E.  and Jiao, X. M. “Stable and accurate loosely-coupled scheme for unstead fluid/structure interaction”. Paper AIAA-07-334. AIAA Conference, Reno, January 2007.

  5. Jaiman, R., Geubelle, P. H., Loth, E. and Jiao, X. (2011) “Transient fluid-structure interaction with non-matching spatial and temporal discretizations.” Computers and Fluids, 50:1, 120-135.