[en] In this paper, ideas for the simulation of sliding dry granular materials interacting with surrounding fluids are presented and first results are presented. The compressible granular material is modeled as a medium which can show solid-like and fluid-like characteristics. Therefore a weighted decomposition of stress tensors of a solid-like and a fluid-like phase is applied. The surrounding incompressible fluids are described with a Newtonian constitutive model. Interface dynamics are handled with the level-set method. The model equations are discretized with the space-time finite element method. Discontinuous solution characteristics across interfaces are captured numerically by the extended finite element method (XFEM). For all discontinuities the space of ansatz functions is enriched with Heaviside functions.
Disciplines :
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Pasenow, F.; Institute for Structural Analysis, TU Braunschweig, Beethovenstr. 51, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
ZILIAN, Andreas ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Engineering Research Unit
Dinkler, D.; Institute for Structural Analysis, TU Braunschweig, Beethovenstr. 51, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Language :
English
Title :
XFEM coupling of granular flows interacting with surrounding fluids
Publication date :
2012
Event name :
6th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2012
Event date :
10 September 2012 through 14 September 2012
Journal title :
ECCOMAS 2012 - European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, e-Book Full Papers