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Acoustics
Heat Transfer
Chemical
Reactions
Fluid Flow
Structural
Mechanics
User Defined
Equations
Acoustics
Heat Transfer
Chemical
Reactions
Fluid Flow
Structural
Mechanics
Electromagnetic
Fields
Acoustics
Heat Transfer
Chemical
Reactions
Structural
Mechanics
Fluid Flow
FSI
POLL QUESTION 1
Which simulation tool do you currently use to model FSI?
COMSOL Multiphysics
Other commercial software
Non-commercial software (in-house code, freeware, open
source, )
None
Fluid/solid coupling;
Fluid/solid coupling;
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POLL QUESTION 2
Which type of solid deformation, or displacement, best defines
your FSI application?
Small elastic deformations (Fluid Solid )
Reference mesh
Structural mechanics
Moving mesh
Fluid flow
Demo Exercise
Modeling overview
Fluid domain
Inlet: u_fluid = f(t,y)
Outlet: p = 0
Solid domain
Modeling in COMSOL
INSERT DEMO
Peristaltic Pumps
Valuable for pumping abrasive fluids, corrosive fluids
and delicate fluids
Rugged pump design requiring minimal maintenance
Used in pharmaceutical, petrochemical, biomedical and
food processing industries
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Pump Modeling
Nonlinear, coupled fluid-structure interaction
Structural nonlinearities include:
Tube material behavior
Contact
Large deformations
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Tube Modeling
Fixed boundary
Hyperelastic tube
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Fluid Modeling
Open fluid
boundaries
Fluid-structure interface:
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Incompressible Newtonian
fluid
Laminar Navier-Stokes
equations
Peristaltic pumps
commonly used for nonNewtonian fluids
Moving fluid-mesh follows
solid deformation
FSI interface automatically
handled by COMSOL
Contact Modeling
Source surfaces
Contact Pair 1
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Contact Pair 2
Contact Lagrange
multipliers solved for as
Lumped Step in
segregated solver
Roller displacement
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Significant flow
fluctuations including flow
reversal at point of roller
separation from tube
(vertical roller position)
In practice fluctuations
reduced by roller design
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