EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH FOR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FLUIDS AND MULTIPLE DEFORMABLE SWELLING OBJECTS USING MASS-SPRING MODEL

Abstract

A computation method was proposed for the interactions between Newtonian fluids and deformable solid objects which swell by absorbing the surrounding flids. The direct-forcing immersed boundary method and mass-spring model are used to estimate the fluid-solid interactive forces and deformations of the solid. The swelling of the object is simulated by changing the natural lengths of the spring models. In addition, the solid-solid interaction is treated by utilizing the distinct element method. The proposed method was applied to three numerical experiments. As a result, it was shown that the basic behaviors of the swelling-deformable objects are reasonably calculated with the present method.