Real World Fluid-Structure Interaction Applications: Retaining Speed and Accuracy while Coupling CFD and Structural Analysis FEA Codes

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is where fluid flow exerts forces and thermal loads on a solid structure causing it to deform such that it perturbs the initial fluid flow. This type of interaction causes the deformation of an aircraft wing during flight, vibrations of a civil engineering structure due to airflow, or deformations of a turbine blade due to thermal stresses from the hot gas flow. FSI interaction is required for many industry applications such as biomedical (elastic artery modeling for stent design) and aero foil flutter and civil engineering (wind loading of structures). FSI is crucial in analyzing critical aspects of an engineering problem (material selection, fatigue, etc.) and it can even be catastrophic, if neglected. The ANSYS FSI solutions provide the industry’s most flexible and advanced coupled structural fluid physics analysis tools.

This webinar will present the robust coupling of ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and structural analysis FEA codes, which retain speed and accuracy. A streamlined and easy-to use environment allows for coupling to be used for many industrial problems. Validations and case studies involving uni-directional and bi-directional coupling of the codes will be presented. These will include transonic flow of AGARD wing flutter, oscillating hydrofoils, turbine blade thermal analysis, flow induced rubber expansions, vortex induced vibrations and more.

Speakers
Michael Tooley
Senior Technical Services Specialist
ANSYS, Inc.

Konstantine A. Kourbatski, Ph.D.
Lead Technical Services Engineer
ANSYS, Inc.

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