On stability and relaxation techniques for partitioned fluid-structure
interaction simulations
Abstract
The stability of relaxation techniques has been studied for strongly
coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) with application to a
cantilever immersed in channel flow. The fluid is governed by
Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flow condition using
turbulence modelling and the solid is governed by the equation of motion
with compressible material modelling. The applied kinematic description
is Lagrangian for the solid and Eulerian for the fluid. The coupling of
the state solvers is achieved by the Arbitrary Lagrange-Euler procedure
which involves a mesh motion solver and the FSI procedure is stabilised
by relaxation. It is shown that the stability can be related to the
frequency shift caused by FSI and they follow the same rate for the
shape factor of the structure with an offset. This correlates well to
theoretical results but also show that for given mesh resolution, all
relaxations fail for sufficient high-frequency shift. We also propose a
continuation technique to stabilise the solution near the instability
region, which also improves the efficiency and can be integrated easily
for the black-box FSI solution procedure.