A Polygonal Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation for Contact Mechanics in Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

A Polygonal Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation for Contact Mechanics in Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

Year:    2021

Author:    Stefano Zonca, Paola F. Antonietti, Christian Vergara

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 30 (2021), Iss. 1 : pp. 1–33

Abstract

In this work, we propose a formulation based on the Polygonal Discontinuous Galerkin (PolyDG) method for contact mechanics that arises in fluid-structure interaction problems. In particular, we introduce a consistent penalization approach to treat the frictionless contact between immersed structures that undergo large displacements. The key feature of the method is that the contact condition can be naturally embedded in the PolyDG formulation, allowing to easily support polygonal/polyhedral meshes. The proposed approach introduced a fixed background mesh for the fluid problem overlapped by the structure grid that is able to move independently of the fluid one. To assess the validity of the proposed approach, we report the results of several numerical experiments obtained in the case of contact between flexible structures immersed in a fluid.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0079

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 30 (2021), Iss. 1 : pp. 1–33

Published online:    2021-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    33

Keywords:    Polygonal Discontinuous Galerkin method fluid-structure interaction contact mechanics.

Author Details

Stefano Zonca

Paola F. Antonietti

Christian Vergara

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