MPS–FEM PARTITIONED COUPLING APPROACH FOR FLUID–STRUCTURE INTERACTION WITH FREE SURFACE FLOW

Abstract

Fluid–structure interaction analysis involving free surface flow has been investigated using mesh-based methods or mesh-free particle methods. While mesh-based methods have several problems in dealing with the fragmentation of geometry and moving interfaces and with the instability of nonlinear advective terms, mesh-free particle methods can deal with free surface and moving boundary relatively easily. In structural analyses, the finite element method, which is a mesh-based method, has been investigated extensively and can accurately deal with not only elastic problems but also plastic and fracture problems. Thus, the present study proposes a partitioned coupling strategy for fluid–structure interaction problems involving free surfaces and moving boundaries that calculates the fluid domain using the moving particle simulation method and the structure domain using the finite element method. As the first step, we apply a conventional serial staggered algorithm as a weak coupling scheme. In addition, for the verification of the proposed method, the problem of a breaking dam on an elastic wall is calculated, and the results are compared with the results obtained by other methods.