Fluid-Structure Interaction: EDGE

An interface between MBDyn and EDGE, a Navier-Stokes solver for unstructured grids developed by FOI (Swedish Defense Research Agency), is being developed.

News

• 2010-10-01: Luca is back to Politecnico di Milano as senior researcher. Congratulations, and good luck!
• 2009-05-01: Luca now works at FOI. Good luck!
• 2009-04-01: L. Cavagna, P. Masarati, and G. Quaranta: "Simulation of Maneuvering Flexible Aircraft by Coupled Multibody/CFD" presented at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, June 29-July 2, 2009, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
• 2008-11-06: This presentation: L. Cavagna, P. Masarati, G. Quaranta, M. Mantegazza
  "Application of Fluid-Structure Tight Interaction by Multibody/CFD Simulation to Aircraft Aeroelasticity in Free Flight"
  was given at the SAAB Flygtekniskt Seminar 2008, November 5-6, 2008, Kolmården, Sweden.
• 2008-10-20: Interface with MBDyn's rigid- & modal-body is there :) See the external forces section of the input manual.
• 2008-04-12: Maneuver capabilities added to EDGE.
• 2008-02-01: Luca is back.
• 2008-01-17: The radial basis functions interface for FSI with EDGE is now fully implemented.
• 2007-12-28: The interface to an external program for generalized component mode synthesis coupling is now implemented in MBDyn.
• 2007-12-13: The moving least-square interface for FSI with EDGE is now fully implemented.
• 2007-11-15: presentation at FOI.
• 2007-11-06: EDGE now fully supports the computation of the classical unsteady aerodynamics matrix H_am(p) in the reduced frequency-domain p, based on given structure motion shapes.
• 2007-10-17: fixed transpiration for aeroelasticity without grid deformation when structural displacements are small.
• 2007-10-12: presentation of activity at FOI.
• 2007-09-28: Luca left.

Points of contact are Mr. Luca Cavagna, Dr. Giuseppe Quaranta, and Dr. Pierangelo Masarati.

Related links

• the TURNS interface research page
• the FreeCASE: Free(dom) Computational AeroServoElasticity project

If you think there is an error in any of the above reported links, or if you have suggestions about info that should be present in this page, please contact mbdyn@aero.polimi.it.