Fluid Structure Interaction

Contents Section 1: Experimental studies and validation Fluid structure interaction of a vibrating circular plate in a bounded fluid volume: simulation and experiment; An experimental investigation on the narrow annular-flow-induced vibration instability of a tube; Free vibration of rectangular liquid tanks: experiments and the finite element method; On modeling two-mode vibration sensors for combined density and viscosity measurements; Prediction, improvement and experimental verification of low-frequency vibro-acoustic transmission through automotive door hinges; Experiments on a dry granular avalanche impacting an obstacle: dead zone, granular jump and induced forces Section 2: Response of structures, including fluid dynamics Three examples of flutter analysis of cable-stayed bridges; Aerodynamic damping and fluid-structure interaction of blast loaded flexible structures; Fluid-structure interactions of fast photomechanical liquid crystal elastomers driven by light; Theory of orthogonal flow in elastic chambers and bio-bags Section 3: Hydrodynamic forces The effect of breaking wave induced currents on an offshore wind turbine foundation; The fast Fourier transform applied to estimate wave energy spectral density in random sea state; Waterhammer effects in the case of air release; Granular forces from steady and avalanche flows on a wall-like obstacle: contribution to avalanche dam design; An error estimator for transmitting boundary conditions in fluid-structure interaction problems Section 4: Offshore structures A computational simulation of the motion of floating wind turbine platforms; Extreme wave-structure interaction and directional spreading effects on the air-gap design of an offshore platform Section 5: Long span bridges Some challenges on the aeroelastic analysis and design of long span bridges; Recent developments on bridge flutter stability estimation accounting for errors in the aeroelastic loading; Application of the k- turbulence model to assess the flutter derivatives of a long span bridge Section 6: Computational methods Fluid-structure interaction phenomenon related to the expulsion and subsequent motion of multiple macroscopic particles; Three-dimensional natural convection in a porous cavity by the boundary element method; An approach to earthquake prediction due to mantle flow and crust interaction; Numerical analysis of stresses for cured-in-place-pipe linings; A numerical study of heat transfer and fluid flow over in-line tube bank; Numerical simulation of the flow around the helicopter blade in hover using the MRF method and turbulence models