I am interested in coupling a FE model of a cantilever beam with incompressible Naviers-Stokes solver of openFOAM for the simulation of a flapping fin like structure. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
If you download OpenFOAM Extended an integrated FSI solver is already available.
Franco
@ Dr. Franco Concli: Thanks for your response. I am working with the benchmark problem HronTurek fsi tutorial in openFOAM. Do you have any good reference for that?
For the coupling, take a look at OpenFOAM's externalCoupled boundary condition (http://www.openfoam.com/version-v3.0+/solution-control.php) and the associated tutorial - the path to which can be found at that link.
Hope that helps,
James
http://www.openfoam.com/version-v3.0+/solution-control.php
Hi Chandan,
if it's still relevant to you, here is a great paper that describes the partitioned approach to FSI:
Article Fixed-point fluid-structure interaction solvers with dynamic...
I have personally found it super useful when trying to reproduce the HronTurek FSI2 benchmark. I have used isogeometric solvers for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and the equations of nonlinear elasticity. I wanted to reuse them for the FSI simulation and aimed at the partitioned approach with strong coupling. Among other stuff, the paper above describes how to speed up the convergence of the coupling loop.
If by any chance you are interested in my code, you can get it on GitHub:
https://github.com/gismo/gsElasticity
Here is a video of the simulation:
https://youtu.be/uh6tSxc8PqQ
Cheers,
Alex
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