Multigrid fictitious boundary and grid deformation methods for flow-induced rotation of wing

Numerical simulations of flow-induced rotation of wing by multigrid fictitious boundary and grid deformation methods are presented. The flow is computed by a special ALE formulation with a multigrid finite element solver. The solid wing is allowed to move freely through the computational mesh which is adaptively aligned by a special mesh deformation method. The advantage of this approach is that no expensive remeshing has to be performed. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)