Splitting schemes and unfitted-mesh methods for the coupling of an incompressible fluid with a thin-walled structure

Two unfitted-mesh methods for a linear incompressible fluid/thin-walled structure interaction problem are introduced and analyzed. The spatial discretization is based on different variants of Nitsche’s method with cut elements. The degree of fluid–solid splitting (semi-implicit or explicit) is given by the order in which the space and time discretizations are performed. The a priori stability and error analysis shows that strong coupling is avoided without compromising stability and accuracy. Numerical experiments with a benchmark illustrate the accuracy of the different methods proposed.

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