Truc Vu: Testing and optimization of Unicorn Fluid-Structure Interaction solver for simulating an industrial problem
Tid: Ti 2013-11-05 kl 14.00
Plats: Room 3721, Lindstedtsvägen 25, 7th floor, Department of mathematics, KTH
Respondent: Truc Vu
Opponent: Khan Raqib Mahmud
Handledare: Johan Hoffman
In industry applications, such as power supply plants, the issue of interaction between fluid and structure is always presented. More precisely, the fluid flow affects the structure by applying force(s) on it and vice versa. As a result, the structure can move (vibrate) or deform. A good understanding of this problem can help to design the system in term of safety, stability and efficiency.
This project aims to optimize and test the Unicorn FSI solver from the FEniCS project [1] to simulate the interaction of fluid and structure in an experiment, which was carried out at Vattenfall Research and Development. The target is to improve the Unicorn FSI solver to cope with a real industrial problem. Moreover, some results of the simulation can be used as a tool to predict the behaviour of a system under the effect of fluid flow.