Accurate Tangential Velocities For Solid Fluid Coupling

Abstract

We propose a novel method for obtaining more accurate tangential velocities for solid fluid coupling. Our method works for both rigid and deformable objects as well as both volumetric objects and thin shells. The fluid can be either one phase such as smoke or two phase such as water with a free surface. The coupling between the solid and the fluid can either be one-way with kinematic solids or fully two-way coupled. The only previous scheme that was general enough to handle both two-way coupling and thin shells required a mass lumping strategy that did not allow for freely flowing tangential velocities. Similar to that previous work, our method prevents leaking of fluid across a thin shell, however unlike that work our method does not couple the tangential velocities in any fashion, allowing for the proper slip independently on each side of the body. Moreover, since it accurately and directly treats the tangential velocity, it does not rely on grid refinement to obtain a reasonable solution. Therefore, it gives a highly improved result on coarse meshes.