Coupling multi-body and fluid dynamics analisys with preCICE and MBDyn

Abstract

The software library preCICE allows to connect single physics solvers to perform multiphysics cosimulations in a partitioned way. We interfaced preCICE with the multibody dynamics software MBDyn and assessed its performance with the set of well-known benchmarks proposed by Turek and Hron. The set-up consists of a laminar incompressible flow around a slender elastic object, which is suitable to be simulated via MBDyn beam elements connected to a cloud of interface points.

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