Hydraulic Line FSI
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CAViDS Consortium
Project Progress
Hydraulic Line Fluid/Structure Interaction
- Evaluation of Abaqus FSI
A CAViDS Consortium Project
WMU Team: Drs. William Liou (PI), Yang Yang
10/02/2014
For CAViDS Consortium Internal Use Only
Computational Engineering Physics Lab.
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Hydraulic Line FSI
For CAViDS Consortium Internal Use Only
CAViDS Consortium
Objective
 Assess the simulation capabilities of fluid /structure
interaction in ABAQUS
Approach
 Hydraulic Line
Outlet
Computational Engineering Physics Lab.
Inlet
Hydraulic Line FSI
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Progress
 FSI setup complete and validated.
 FSI success runs limited. Feedbacks
from ABAQUS CS.
 Explore realistic meshes
 90%. Expected completion in Q3 2014.
Viscous Fluid Mesh
Objective
(AR~100)
 Assess ABAQUS FSI capabilities.
Approach
 Employ ABAQUS CFD and ABAQUS
Standard FSI technologies to the
interactions between the structural
physics and the flow physics.
 CAT provide input geometries,
structural and materials, and
inlet/outlet conditions.
CAViDS Consortium
Geometry and Meshes
ACS Mesh
(AR~1)
Viscous ACS Mesh
(AR~5)
Refined Viscous ACS Mesh
(AR~5)
Computational Engineering Physics Lab.
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Hydraulic Line FSI
For CAViDS Consortium Internal Use Only
CAViDS Consortium
Project Progress
ABAQUS FSI
ABAQUS/CFD + ABAQUS Standard
• The hydraulic line problem as specified involves strong physics coupling
between the fluid dynamics and the structural dynamics.
• The strong coupling requires much closely coupled interactions between
CFD and CSM solvers than what is used in the current coupling scheme
(sequential explicit coupling).
• The sequential explicit coupling method is considered a “loose” or “weak” coupling scheme,
which is best suited for FSI analysis with a weak physics coupling.
• It is not recommended to use Abaqus/CFD + Abaqus/Standard for the specified conditions
of the hydraulic line FSI analysis.
• Further approaches to consider are FSI implementation in
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Abaqus/CFD+Abauqs/Explicit.
ANSYS Workbench, as it provides the iterative or “strong” coupling scheme.
Next release of MpCCI, that couples Abaqus/Standard with ANSYS FLUENT iteratively.
Computational Engineering Physics Lab.