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Fluid-structure interaction with NURBS-based coupling

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Norbert Hosters *
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Jan Helmig
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Atanas Stavrev
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Marek Behr
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Stefanie Elgeti
DOI:10.1016/j.cma.2018.01.003delete
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Engineering design via CAD software relies on Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) as a means for representing and communicating geometry. Therefore, in general, a NURBS description of a given design can be considered the exact description. The development of isogeometric methods has made the geometry available to analysis methods Hughes et al. (2005). Isogeometric analysis has been particularly successful in structural analysis; one reason being the wide-spread use of two-dimensional finite elements in this field. For fluid dynamics, where three-dimensional analysis is usually indispensable, isogeometric methods are more complicated, yet of course not impossible, to apply in a general fashion. This paper describes a method that enables the solution of fluid-structure-interaction with a matching spline description of the interface. On the structural side, the spline is used in an isogeometric setting. On the fluid side, the same spline is used in the framework of a NURBS-enhanced finite element method (extension of Sevilla et al. (2011)). The coupling of the structural and the fluid solution is greatly facilitated by the common spline interface. The use of the identical spline representation for both sides permits a direct transfer of the necessary quantities, all the while still allowing an adjusted, individual refinement level for both sides. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Non-uniform rational B-splines
Isogeometric analysis
NURBS-enhanced finite element method
Fluid-structure interaction
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Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering cover
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
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7.3
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RWTH Aachen University
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