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The study of the interaction between waves and porous structures is of great importance in offshore engineering. These are often used to dissipate the energy of incoming waves and protect structures or land. For this reason, with time a few porous models have been implemented in CFD solvers, mostly ...

New technical developments and industrialisation of floating wind turbines will allow the construction of wind energy farms in regions with larger water depths and high-energy potential. This increase in renewable capacity will require the adoption of energy storage solutions to overcome the intermi...

Understanding the mechanics of fish propulsion has been an active field of research for decades and continues to inspire novel propulsion systems. Biologists and engineers have identified that a combination of kinematics, active as well as passive morphing, exceptional control and sensory perception...

We consider methods for dynamic coupled problems, in particular partitioned solvers for fluid structure interaction where different sub-solvers are used for the fluid and solid domain. More specifically we want to create a detailed simulation of a jackdaw's feather to investigate how feathers genera...

The numerical simulation of atherosclerotic plaque growth is computationally prohibitive since it involves a complex cardiovascular fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem with a characteristic time scale of milliseconds to seconds as well as a plaque growth process governed by reaction-diffusion ...

Floating offshore structures are of great interest for many applications. A particular type of floating structures are the so called Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS). One can find several examples of VLFS, such as floating airports, floating solar energy installations, floating breakwaters, or ...

The analysis of wave-structure interaction in practical coastal and ocean engineering problems requires large-domains and complex geometries. A study using single-physics numerical models can be computationally prohibitive or have limited accuracy. It is the need of the hour to develop models which ...

Fluid-structure interaction of thin, flexible structures is extremely common in nature and engineering, from leaf fluttering to parachute inflation. Numerical simulation of those systems is of interest in many fields of engineering but is challenging for a number of reasons; the low bending rigidity...

The blast-resistant design of buildings has been of interest for decades, in petrochemical industry, military, legal courts, nuclear reactors, embassies and other vital facilities. Reliable analysis procedures have been established to determine the response of those buildings to a well-defined blast...

Computational efficiency has remained one of the major barriers constraining the development of computational approaches for simulating many industrial problems involving fluid-structure interaction. The most efficient algorithms are the partitioned staggered solution approaches. These methods requi...

To transition towards a carbon neutral future, we are required to look for new sources of renewable energy. The potential of the sea for capturing renewable energy is immense, but it requires us to move towards deeper waters. Therefore, there is an increased demand for research into floating renewab...

Today, cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. With a special focus on the treatment of hypertension and the clinical consequences, thereof, the computational modeling of fluid-structure interaction with pharmaco-mechanical effects becomes vastly relevant. Therefore,...

Modern ships can easily exceed 400m in length. At this size, the flexural response of the ship can be significant, and the natural frequencies can be dangerously close to the energetic region of typical ocean waves. Container ships with relatively little deck stiffening are particularly flexible, es...