A Partitioned Algorithm of Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interaction for Elephant Foot Bulging of Tanks

Abstract

A partitioned coupling algorithm is presented in this paper to solve the dynamic large-displacement fluid-structure interaction (DFSI) problems. In this algorithm, the program based on arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) and fractional two-step method is developed to calculate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational mesh dynamics (CMD). ABAQUS is used to calculate computational structure dynamics (CSD). Some user subroutines are implemented into ABAQUS and the data are exchanged among CSD, CFD and CMD. Numerical results including elephant foot bulging (EFB) of the liquid storage tank are obtained under dynamic waveform.