TY - JOUR
T1 - A multilevel domain decomposition approach to solving coupled applications in computational fluid dynamics
AU - Aulisa, Eugenio
AU - Manservisi, Sandro
AU - Seshaiyer, Padmanabhan
PY - 2008/3/20
Y1 - 2008/3/20
N2 - Direct numerical simulation of the non-linear equations, governing a fluid-structure system, relies heavily on the properties of the coupled system and the corresponding iterative solver. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a flexible and robust multilevel finite element algorithm that can be used to study the behavior of a fully coupled fluid-structure system. The method relies on the domain decomposition characteristics of the multigrid Vanka solvers, which decompose the complex global domain into the finite element local sub-domains and then compute the global solution iteratively. This particular methodology allows us to solve easily this coupled system over a fluid-solid domain which consists of a set of subdomains from different mesh levels with conforming or non-conforming finite element method approximations. The multigrid projection and restriction operators are used to impose the matching between the extended fluid and solid velocity field.
AB - Direct numerical simulation of the non-linear equations, governing a fluid-structure system, relies heavily on the properties of the coupled system and the corresponding iterative solver. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a flexible and robust multilevel finite element algorithm that can be used to study the behavior of a fully coupled fluid-structure system. The method relies on the domain decomposition characteristics of the multigrid Vanka solvers, which decompose the complex global domain into the finite element local sub-domains and then compute the global solution iteratively. This particular methodology allows us to solve easily this coupled system over a fluid-solid domain which consists of a set of subdomains from different mesh levels with conforming or non-conforming finite element method approximations. The multigrid projection and restriction operators are used to impose the matching between the extended fluid and solid velocity field.
KW - Fluid-structure interaction
KW - Multigrid solver
KW - Multilevel domain decomposition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=40749112720&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/fld.1589
DO - 10.1002/fld.1589
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:40749112720
SN - 0271-2091
VL - 56
SP - 1139
EP - 1145
JO - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
IS - 8
ER -