SUMMARYNumerical difficulties are present in the particle finite element method even though it has been shown to be a powerful and effective approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction. To overcome problems of mass loss on the free surface and the added-mass effect, an improved fractional step method (FSM) that handles addedmass terms in a mathematically exact way is developed. A further benefit is that no assumptions regarding the structural response are made in handling added-mass terms, thus it is straightforward to incorporate material nonlinearity in fluid-structure interaction (FSI) under this approach. Patch tests and comparisons with experimental data are presented in order to verify and validate the improved FSM for FSI applications. The computational cost of this approach is shown to be negligible compared with the other aspects of the FSM, particularly when the size of the structure and the fluid-structure interface is small relative to the volume of fluid.
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