A fully decoupled scheme for the interaction of a thin-walled structure with an incompressible fluid

Abstract

In this note we propose a class of fully decoupled schemes (velocity–pressure–displacement splitting) for the coupling of an incompressible fluid with a thin-walled structure. The time splitting is achieved by combining an overall fractional-step time-marching of the system with a specific Robin–Neumann treatment of the interface coupling. The two variants considered yield unconditional stability. Numerical experiments in a benchmark show that, for one of them, the splitting does not compromises the optimal convergence rate.