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Article: Wu, K, Yang, D and Wright, N (2016) A coupled SPH-DEM model for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flow and structural failure. Computers and Structures, 177. pp. 141-161. ISSN 0045-7949 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2016.08.012
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ A coupled SPH-DEM model for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flow and structural failure
Ke Wu1, Dongmin Yang1,*, Nigel Wright2
1 School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 2 Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, LE1 9BH, UK
Abstract
An integrated particle model is developed to study fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems with fracture in the structure induced by the free surface flow of the fluid. In this model, the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) based on the kernel approximation and particle approximation is used to model the fluid domain in accordance with Navier-Stokes equations and the Discrete Element Method (DEM) with a parallel bond model is used to represent the real solid structure through a hexagonal packing of bonded particles. Validation tests have been carried out for the DEM model of the structure with deformation and fracture failure, the SPH model of the fluid and the coupled SPH- DEM model of FSI without fracture, all showing very good agreement with analytical solutions and/or published experimental and numerical results. The simulation results of FSI with fracture indicate that the SPH-DEM model developed is capable of capturing the entire FSI process from structural deformation to structural failure and eventually to post-failure deformable body movement.
Keywords: Discrete Element Method, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Free Surface Flow, Fracture
Nomenclature the contact force the stiffness of a particle the contact displacement the contact velocity the friction coefficient the critical damping ratio the moment-contribution factor the particle mass ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT the density of a particle the body force acceleration the position vector of a particle * Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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the resultant moment acting on a particle the principle moment of inertia of a particle the element thickness