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Stability of Finite Difference Discretizations of Multi-Physics Interface Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

Björn Sjögreen  and
Jeffrey W. Banks
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Abstract

We consider multi-physics computations where the Navier-Stokes equations of compressible fluid flow on some parts of the computational domain are coupled to the equations of elasticity on other parts of the computational domain. The different subdomains are separated by well-defined interfaces. We consider time accurate computations resolving all time scales. For such computations, explicit time stepping is very efficient. We address the issue of discrete interface conditions between the two domains of different physics that do not lead to instability, or to a significant reduction of the stable time step size. Finding such interface conditions is non-trivial.

We discretize the problem with high order centered difference approximations with summation by parts boundary closure. We derive L2 stable interface conditions for the linearized one dimensional discretized problem. Furthermore, we generalize the interface conditions to the full non-linear equations and numerically demonstrate their stable and accurate performance on a simple model problem. The energy stable interface conditions derived here through symmetrization of the equations contain the interface conditions derived through normal mode analysis by Banks and Sjögreen in [8] as a special case.

Keywords

65M0665M1274F10Fluid-structure interactionfinite difference methodsummation by partsmultiphysics interface condition
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Research Article
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , February 2013 , pp. 386 - 410
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2013

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