International audienceWe address the numerical simulation of fluid-structure systems involving an incompressible viscous fluid. This issue is particularly difficult to face when the fluid added-mass acting on the structure is strong, as it happens in hemodynamics for example. Indeed, several works have shown that, in such situations, implicit coupling seems to be necessary in order to avoid numerical instabilities. Although significant improvements have been achieved during the last years, solving implicit coupling often exhibits a prohibitive computational cost. In this work, we introduce a semi-implicit coupling scheme which remains stable for a reasonable range of the discretization parameters. The first idea consists in treating implicitly the added-mass effect, whereas the other contributions (geometrical non-linearities, viscous and convective effects) are treated explicitly. The second idea, relies on the fact that this kind of explicit-implicit splitting can be naturally performed using a Chorin-Temam projection scheme in the fluid. We prove (conditional) stability of the scheme for a fully discrete formulation. Several numerical experiments point out the efficiency of the present scheme compared to several implicit approaches

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We consider a three-dimensional viscous incompressible fluid governed by the Navier-Stokes equations, interacting with an elastic plate located on one part of the fluid boundary. We do not neglect the deformation of the fluid domain which consequently depends on the displacement of the structure. The purpose of this work is to study the solutions of this unsteady fluid-structure interaction problem, as the coefficient modeling the viscoelasticity (resp. the rotatory inertia) of the plate tends to zero. As a consequence, we obtain the existence of at least one weak solution for the limit problem (Navier-Stokes equation coupled with a plate in flexion) as long as the structure does not touch the bottom of the fluid cavity.

Abstract.We study the well-posedness of an unsteady fluid-structure interaction problem. We consider a viscous incompressible flow, which is modelled by the Navier-Stokes equations. The structure is a collection of rigid moving bodies. The fluid domain depends on time and is defined by the position of the structure, itself resulting from a stress distribution coming from the fluid. The problem is then nonlinear and the equations we deal with are coupled. We prove its local solvability in time through two fixed point procedures.Mathematics Subject Classification. 76D05, 35Q30, 73K70.

We consider a three-dimensional viscous incompressible fluid governed by the Navier-Stokes equations, interacting with an elastic plate located on one part of the fluid boundary. We do not neglect the deformation of the fluid domain which consequently depends on the displacement of the structure. The purpose of this work is to study the solutions of this unsteady fluid-structure interaction problem, as the coefficient modeling the viscoelasticity (resp. the rotatory inertia) of the plate tends to zero. As a consequence, we obtain the existence of at least one weak solution for the limit problem (Navier-Stokes equation coupled with a plate in flexion) as long as the structure does not touch the bottom of the fluid cavity.

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Abstract. We study an unsteady non linear fluid-structure interaction problem which is a simplified model to describe blood flow through viscoleastic arteries. We consider a Newtonian incompressible two-dimensional flow described by the Navier-Stokes equations set in an unknown domain depending on the displacement of a structure, which itself satisfies a linear viscoelastic beam equation. The fluid and the structure are fully coupled via interface conditions prescribing the continuity of the velocities at the fluid-structure interface and the action-reaction principle. We prove that strong solutions to this problem are global-in-time. We obtain in particular that contact between the viscoleastic wall and the bottom of the fluid cavity does not occur in finite time. To our knowledge, this is the first occurrence of a no-contact result, but also of existence of strong solutions globally in time, in the frame of interactions between a viscous fluid and a deformable structure.

A steady state fluid-structure interaction problem is considered and its solvability is studied. Both the fluid and the structure are three-dimensional. The equations of the viscous fluid motion are set in an unknown domain depending on the structure displacement. The structure is elastic and its deformation depends on the stress coming from the fluid. We prove that, for small enough applied exterior forces, there exists at least one regular solution of this nonlinear coupled problem. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 76D03, 74F10, 35Q30, 35Q35.