Marguerite Champion (INRIA COMMEDIA)
Modeling, analysis and simulation of fluid-structure-contact interaction including seepage
The numerical simulation of systems involving fluid-structure-contact interaction raises many modeling, mathematical and numerical issues. It is also crucial for numerous biomedical applications (e.g., native or artificial cardiac valves). Modeling contact between solids adds challenging difficulties to fluid-structure interaction (FSI). First, in some configurations, FSI models are unable to predict contact; this is the so called no collision paradox. A second major issue is to obtain mechanically consistent models. Indeed, the simple addition of a contact constraint leads to mechanical inconsistencies like unphysical void creation at releases from contact or unbalanced stress at contact. A favored approach is to consider a porous modeling of the fluid seepage induced by the roughness of the contacting solids. In this talk we will show that, in the case of a rigid disk moving over a fixed horizontal plane, adding a surface Darcy model on the plane does allow for contact, and hence removes the above mentioned non collision paradox of traditional FSI models, which rely on Dirichlet or Dirichlet/Navier boundary conditions. Numerical evidence on this result will also be provided. Finally, we will propose an extension of the porous modeling of seepage to the case of moving elastic thin-walled structure immersed in a Navier-Stokes fluid. A stable discretisation scheme along with numerical illustrations is then proposed for the resulting model.
