The relevance of conservation for stability and accuracy of numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 192, Issue 37-38, 2003, Pages 4195-4215

  Michler, C ^a   van Brummelen, E H ^a   Hulshoff, S J ^a   de Borst, R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Energy conservation; Fluid structure interaction; Monolithic schemes; Numerical stability; Partitioned schemes; Space time formulation; Time discontinuous Galerkin method

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS;

FLUID STRUCTURE;

FLUIDICS;

FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; STABILITY CRITERIA;

EID: 0141684750     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(03)00392-X     Document Type: Article

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