Title: Fluid-structure interaction in pipe flow

Authors: Nabil Benyahia, Ferhat Souidi

Addresses: Faculte de Physique, Universite des Sciences et de la Technologie, Houari Boumediene 16111, Bab Ezzouar ALGER-ALGERIE. ' Faculte de Physique, Universite des Sciences et de la Technologie, Houari Boumediene 16111, Bab Ezzouar ALGER-ALGERIE

Abstract: Flow of a viscous incompressible Newtonian fluid in a cylindrical compliant tube is examined numerically. The proposed model solves the coupled flow-structure problem by recasting the governing flow equations into the standard Poiseuille form. The interaction between the fluid flow and the dynamics of the structure is accounted for by an additional induced force in the momentum equation and a source term in the continuity equation. The numerical results show that the former affects the dynamics of the flow, whereas the latter controls the shape of the structure.

Keywords: flow-structure interaction; compliant tube; pulsatile flow; tube law; viscous flow; incompressible flow; Newtonian fluid; fluid flow; CFD; computational fluid dynamics.

DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2007.014685

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2007 Vol.7 No.6, pp.354 - 362

Published online: 25 Jul 2007 *

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