SCCS Colloquium - Feb 19, 2020
Date: | February 19, 2020 |
Room: | 00.08.053 |
Time: | 15:00 - 16:00 |
Qunsheng Huang: Loose-Coupling of CFD/CSD Rotorcraft Simulations via preCICE
Master's thesis submission talk. Qunsheng is advised by Gerasimos Chourdakis, in collaboration with the Institute of Helicopter Technology (Amine Abdelmoula).
Accurate rotor blade analysis is a complex multiphysics problem. The current paradigm employs multiple single-physics solvers to solve the multi-physics problem. This work develops preCICE adapters for TAU and CAMRAD II. These modular adapters minimize code dependencies between solvers and allow for the easy removal or addition of data processing steps. Additional methods were implemented to support the loosely-coupled rotorcraft simulations. Similarly, an intermediate interpolation step was implemented to allow for the 3D-1D passing of data from TAU to CAMRAD II. Three cases were implemented using the adapter code. A simple, tightly- coupled simulation was used when designing the TAU adapter. The second case was a loosely-coupled rotor blade simulation with only rigid body motion. This simulation was extended to introduce elastic deformation in addition to rigid body motion to create a third case.
Keywords: preCICE, loose-coupling, rotorcraft simulation, 1D-3D mapping