Fluid-Structure Interaction - Toolkit

Quoting from here: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-news-announcements-other/106881-solid-mechanics-solvers-added-openfoam-extend.html#post547754

This toolkit supersedes the icoFsiElasticNonLinULSolidFoam FSI solver within the solidMechanics toolbox.

This framework was presented at the OpenFOAM Workshop 2014 in Zagreb:

• abstract: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/files/OpenFOAM_Workshops/OFW9_2014_Zagreb/Abstracts/Zeljko_Tukovic_OFW09_EA_0103.pdf
• slides: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/files/OpenFOAM_Workshops/OFW9_2014_Zagreb/Presentations/Zeljko_Tukovic_OFW09_P_0103.pdf

The major improvement with regard to FSI coupling is the implementation of the IQN-ILS algorithm. Also, the plugin approach used for the solid and fluid solvers should allow easier extension to other fluid/solid models e.g. multi-phase, compressible, plasticity, etc.

For more details about this toolkit, including how to use and install/build it, check the associated wiki page: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Extend-bazaar/Toolkits/Fluid-structure_interaction

Original Authors

• solidMechanics toolbox: Philip Cardiff, University College Dublin.

• FluidStructureInteraction toolkit: Zeljko Tukovic, P. Cardiff, A. Karac, H. Jasak, A. Ivankovic

  • For proper punctuation of the names, please see the "slides" document listed above.

Further modifications

Original source came from the wiki page: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Extend-bazaar/Toolkits/Fluid-structure_interaction

Further modifications made by Bruno Santos (wyldckat@github working at blueCAPE Lda):

• Gitified the source code.
• Adjusted the code for building properly with the more recent foam-extend 3.1 and 3.2
• Improved building organization for taking full advantage of parallel building.

Git branches

Currently there are only three branches:

• fe30 - This branch will build as-is with foam-extend 3.0
• fe31 - This branch will build as-is with foam-extend 3.1
• fe32 - This branch will build as-is with foam-extend 3.2

Quick usage instructions:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/wyldckat/FluidStructureInteraction.git

2. Checkout the right branch, e.g. for fe30:

cd FluidStructureInteraction
git checkout fe30

3. Now build:

cd src
./Allwmake

License

The same as foam-extend, namely GNU GPL v3. For more information, see the file LICENSE or COPYING, depending on the branch on this repository.