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Dynamic simulation of liquid-filled flexible multibody systems via absolute nodal coordinate formulation and SPH method

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A new computation method is proposed to study the coupled dynamics of a partially liquid-filled flexible multibody system, where the liquid is modeled by using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method and the flexible bodies are described by using the Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation (ANCF). Extra virtual particles are introduced and embedded in the liquid neighboring the rigid or flexible boundaries in order to prevent field particles from penetrating the boundary and force them to follow the deformation of flexible boundary. The interaction forces between the liquid and the flexible multibody system are transmitted by the virtual particles. The domain decomposition is used to improve the efficiency of interaction detection in SPH computation. A predictor-corrector scheme is used to solve the governing equations of liquid discretized by SPH particles. The generalized-alpha method based on sparse matrix storage skill is used to solve a huge set of dynamic equations of the multibody system. The OpenMP+OpenACC based parallel computation skills are embedded in the iteration processes to speed up the computation efficiency. Finally, three numerical examples are given to validate the proposed computation method.

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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundations of China under Grants 11290151 and 11221202. The work was also supported in part by Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund from Beijing Institute of Technology.

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Hu, W., Tian, Q. & Hu, H. Dynamic simulation of liquid-filled flexible multibody systems via absolute nodal coordinate formulation and SPH method. Nonlinear Dyn 75, 653–671 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-013-1093-3

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