Minato Onishi¹, Daisuke Ishihara^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.121, No.1, pp. 145-175, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.06781

Abstract This study proposed a partitioned method to analyze maneuvering of insects during flapping flight. This method decomposed the insect flapping flight into wing and body subsystems and then coupled them via boundary conditions imposed on the wing’s base using one-way coupling. In the wing subsystem, the strong coupling of the flexible wings and surrounding fluid was accurately analyzed using the finite element method to obtain the thrust forces acting on the insect’s body. The resulting thrust forces were passed from the wing subsystem to the body subsystem, and then rigid body motion was analyzed in the body subsystem. The rolling,… More >

Longling Fan^1,*, Jing Yao ^{2, *}, Chun Yang³, Di Xu², Dalin Tang^{1, 4, §}

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.114, No.2, pp. 221-237, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.114.221

Abstract Understanding cardiac blood flow behaviors is of importance for cardiovascular research and clinical assessment of ventricle functions. Patient-specific Echo-based left ventricle (LV) fluid-structure interaction (FSI) models were introduced to perform ventricle mechanical analysis, investigate flow behaviors, and evaluate the impact of myocardial infarction (MI) and hypertension on blood flow in the LV. Echo image data were acquired from 3 patients with consent obtained: one healthy volunteer (P1), one hypertension patient (P2), and one patient who had an inferior and posterior myocardial infarction (P3). The nonlinear Mooney-Rivlin model was used for ventricle tissue with material parameter values chosen to match echo-measure… More >

Dalin Tang¹, Chun Yang², Satya Atluri³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 67-68, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.067

Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Many victims of the disease died suddenly without prior symptoms. It is a great challenge for clinicians and researchers to develop screening techniques and assessment methodologies to identify those patients for early treatment and prevention of the fatal clinical event. Considerable effort has been devoted investigating mechanisms governing atherosclerotic plaque progression and rupture [Friedman, Bargeron, Deters, Hutchins and Mark (1987); Friedman and Giddens (2005); Giddens, Zarins, Glagov, S. (1993); Ku, Giddens, Zarins and Glagov (1985); Gibson et al. (1993); Liu and Tang (2010); Stone et al. (2003); Yang, Tang, Atluri et… More >

Mingchao Cai, Chun Yang, Mehmet H. Kural, Richard Bach, David Muccigrosso, Deshan Yang, Jie Zheng, Kristen L. Billiar, Dalin Tang

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 97-104, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.019.097

Abstract Image-based computational modeling has been introduced for vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques to identify critical mechanical conditions which may be used for better risk assessment and rupture predictions. In vivo patient-specific coronary plaque models are lagging due to limitations on non-invasive image resolution, flow data, and vessel material properties. We propose a procedure where intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging, biaxial mechanical testing and computational modeling are combined together to acquire better and more complete plaque data and make more accurate plaque vulnerability assessment and predictions. More >

X.H. Du, X.P. Shen

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 81-82, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.016.081

Abstract Aim of this paper is to simulate the fluid-structure interaction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) prestressed storage tank under seismic influence. The coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) analysis technique is used to simulate the hydrodynamic interaction between LNG and the cylinder of LNG prestressed storage tank. The 3-D model of LNG has been dispersed by Eulerian mesh which is different from traditional added mass analysis method. Meanwhile, both of the 3-D models of prestressed rebar and concrete structure are dispersed by Lagrangian mesh. Following conclusions are obtained: 1) Natural frequency of the whole model has been obtained by using the Block Lanczos… More >

D. Ishihara

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 66-66, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05888

Abstract This study shows that some of important characteristic motions in insect flapping wings can be created by the fluid-structure interaction. A lumped flexibility model is used to describe the flexibilities in insect’s wings. A three-dimensional finite element method for the fluid-structure interaction analyzes the behaviors of the model wing, the surrounding fluid, and their interaction, where the dynamic similarity law for the fluid-structure interaction is used to incorporate actual insect data. This finite element method uses the projection and parallel computation algorithms, which perform the systematic parametric study efficiently. The elastic recoil and the modes in the path of the… More >

Tomonori Yamada^*, Yuki Yamamoto, Giwon Hong, Shinobu Yoshimura

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 61-61, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05386

Abstract This paper describes performance study of a mesh moving technique with minimum-height-based stiffening for robust fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis with large deformation. The authors have been developing a general purpose parallel FSI analysis system for large scale problems with interface tracking approach and applied it to the analyses of flapping motion of micro air vehicles, fuel assemblies of the boiling water reactors under seismic loading, wind turbines and so on. The practical use of FSI analysis system requires the robustness for the parametric design of various mechanical systems. In this context, mesh moving technique is a key for avoiding the… More >

Doan An¹, Jae-Woo Lee², Sang Ho Kim¹, Yung-Hwan Byun¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.11, No.2, pp. 35-36, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.011.035

Abstract As analysis methods for the individual CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and FEM (Finite Element Method) analyses are matured, many researches are going on recently and several commercial software are available and ready to use, but the application of the method is limited to the specific or relatively simple geometry. When the configuration geometry is complex or operating conditions are difficult to impose, the meshing and re-meshing process between aerodynamic analysis and FEM analysis is not an easy task and commercial software have limitations to be applied to the specific problems.
Therefore, in this study, the aerodynamics-structure coupled analysis for the… More >

S.T. Jenq^1,2, Y.S. Chiu², Y.C. Ting²

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 263-264, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.009.263

Abstract The purpose of this work is to study the transient hydroplaning behavior of inflated pneumatic 195/65R15 radial tires with various tread patterns and the tires were loaded with a quarter car weight. The tires were analyzed numerically to roll over a water film with a thickness of 5 mm, 10 mm and 15 mm on top of a flat-road pavement. Current tire structure contains the outer rubber tread and the inner advanced reinforcing composite layers. The Mooney-Rivlin constitutive law and the classical laminated theory (CLT) were used to describe the behavior of the large-deformable rubber tread material and reinforcing composite… More >

Jie Cheng¹, Feimi Yu¹, Lucy T. Zhang^{1, *}

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.119, No.1, pp. 91-124, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.04318

Abstract We present a high performance modularly-built open-source software - OpenIFEM. OpenIFEM is a C++ implementation of the modified immersed finite element method (mIFEM) to solve fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. This software is modularly built to perform multiple tasks including fluid dynamics (incompressible and slightly compressible fluid models), linear and nonlinear solid mechanics, and fully coupled fluid-structure interactions. Most of open-source software packages are restricted to certain discretization methods; some are under-tested, under-documented, and lack modularity as well as extensibility. OpenIFEM is designed and built to include a set of generic classes for users to adapt so that any fluid and… More >