Isogeometric fluid-structure interaction using a mixed continuous/discontinuous Galerkin scheme

Abstract

A mixed continuous / discontinuous Galerkin scheme is introduced for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems in an isogeometric analysis framework. The properties of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline basis functions are leveraged to enable an exact transfer of the structural displacement to the fluid domain, while using different discretizations and refinements on the two sides of the coupling interface. The proposed approach is applied to the simulation of a compressible flow around an elastic wing membrane and to a classical fluid-structure benchmark involving the flow around a cylinder equipped with a hyper-elastic bar. For both cases, the results obtained are compared to those found in the literature to assess the accuracy of the proposed method.