Control Theory based adaptive time stepping for partitioned fluid-structure interactions
The work presented in this poster explores the performance of a Control Theory based adaptive time stepping procedure for partitioned black-box Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) simulations. The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM) solvers are both set up in FEniCS, but treated as black-box codes providing access only to the variables at the interface. A fully implicit stabilized ALE formulation of the incompressible navier-stokes is used for the CFD solver, while the CSM solver is set up to handle various elasticity models such as linear, St.Venant Kirchoff and Neo-Hookean along with time integration schemes such as the Newmark Linear Acceleration and Newmark Constant Acceleration. Acceleration techniques for coupling such as Reduced Order Modelling (ROM) and Quasi-Newton Methods are used. Comparison of the incorporated CFD, CSM and FSI solvers are done against various benchmark, textbook and tutorial cases, and have produced comparable results. Since no access to the time-discretization methods is provided by the black box codes, an adaptive time stepping procedure using a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller is an ideal candidate.The results from this work provide insights into implementing adaptive time stepping using a PID controller for coupling environments which couple commercial black-box codes.
Keywords: Fluid-Structure Interaction, Finite Element Method, Control Theory, Adaptive time stepping
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