Unified fluid-structure interpolation and mesh motion using radial basis functions

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1519-1559

  Rendall, T C S ^a   Allen, C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aero elasticity; Compactly supported functions; Fluid structure interpolation; Flutter; Information transfer; Mesh motion; Multivariate interpolation; Radial basis functions

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; DYNAMICS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; GAS DYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; VECTORS;

AEROELASTIC BEHAVIOUR; ARBITRARY POINTS; BLACK BOXES; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (CSD); CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION (CI); COUPLING PROBLEMS; FLOW SOLVERS; FLUID STRUCTURES; GLOBAL GRID; MATRIX-VECTOR; MESH MOTION; MESH QUALITY; MOVING SURFACES; MULTIVARIATE INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH (OOA); ORTHOGONALITY; POINT CLOUDS; RADIAL-BASIS FUNCTION (RBF); STATIC DEFLECTIONS; SURFACE DEFORMATIONS; UNIFIED FORMULATION (UF); UNSTEADY SIMULATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 47249127284     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2219     Document Type: Article

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