Partitioned Solvers for the Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems with a Nearly Incompressible Elasticity Model

Dr. Huidong Yang

March 20, 2012, 3:30 p.m. S2 059

In this work, we present some analysis and numerical studies on two partitioned fluid-structure interaction solvers: a preconditioned GMRES solver and a Newton based solver, for the fluid-structure interaction problems employing a nearly incompressible elasticity model in a classical mixed displacement-pressure formulation.
Both are highly relying on robust and efficient solvers for the fluid and structure sub-problems obtained from an extended and stabilized finite element discretization on hybrid meshes. A special algebraic multigrid method capable of handling such general saddle point systems for the incompressible and nearly incompressible models is investigated.