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Combined MPM-DEM for Simulating the Interaction Between Solid Elements and Fluid Particles

Part of: Coupling of solid mechanics with other effects Basic methods in fluid mechanics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2017

Youqing Yang ,
Pengtao Sun  and
Zhen Chen
Youqing Yang*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA Department of Technology Development, Me Global Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55421, USA
Pengtao Sun*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
Zhen Chen*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email addresses:yy058@mail.missouri.edu, ryang@meglobal.com (Y. Yan), pengtao.sun@unlv.edu (P. Sun), ChenZh@missouri.edu (Z. Chen)
*Corresponding author. Email addresses:yy058@mail.missouri.edu, ryang@meglobal.com (Y. Yan), pengtao.sun@unlv.edu (P. Sun), ChenZh@missouri.edu (Z. Chen)
*Corresponding author. Email addresses:yy058@mail.missouri.edu, ryang@meglobal.com (Y. Yan), pengtao.sun@unlv.edu (P. Sun), ChenZh@missouri.edu (Z. Chen)
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Abstract

How to effectively simulate the interaction between fluid and solid elements of different sizes remains to be challenging. The discrete element method (DEM) has been used to deal with the interactions between solid elements of various shapes and sizes, while the material point method (MPM) has been developed to handle the multiphase (solid-liquid-gas) interactions involving failure evolution. A combined MPM-DEM procedure is proposed to take advantage of both methods so that the interaction between solid elements and fluid particles in a container could be better simulated. In the proposed procedure, large solid elements are discretized by the DEM, while the fluid motion is computed using the MPM. The contact forces between solid elements and rigid walls are calculated using the DEM. The interaction between solid elements and fluid particles are calculated via an interfacial scheme within the MPM framework. With a focus on the boundary condition effect, the proposed procedure is illustrated by representative examples, which demonstrates its potential for a certain type of engineering problems.

Keywords

Multiphase flowsolid-fluid interactionmaterial point method (MPM)discrete element method (DEM)

MSC classification

Secondary: 65Z05: Applications to physics 76M28: Particle methods and lattice-gas methods 74F10: Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.)

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , May 2017 , pp. 1258 - 1281
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Copyright © Global-Science Press 2017 

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