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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Labs

HAMster
  • Title: High order Adaptive moving MeSh finiTE elements in immeRsed computational mechanics

  • International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

    • Duke (United States) - Civil & Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering & Material Science - Guglielmo Scovazzi

    • Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (France) - CARDAMOM team - Mario Ricchiuto

  • Start year: 2017

  • See also: https://team.inria.fr/athamster/

  • This project focuses on adaptive unstructured mesh finite element-type methods for fluid flows with moving fronts. These fronts may be interfaces between different fluids, or fluid/solid, and modelling or physical  fronts (e.g. shock waves) present in the flow. The two teams involved in the project have developed over the years complementary strategies,  one focusing more on an Eulerian description aiming at capturing fronts on adaptive unstructured grids,  the other  working more on Lagrangian approaches aiming at following exactly some of these features. Unfortunately, classical Lagrangian methods are at a disadvantage in the presence of complex deformation patterns, especially for fronts undergoing large deformations, since the onset of vorticity quickly leads to mesh rotation and eventually tangling. On the other end, capturing approaches, as well as Immersed Boundary/Embedded (IB/EB) methods, while providing  enormous flexibility when considering complex cases,  require a careful use of mesh adaptivity to guarantee an accurate capturing of interface physics. The objective of this team is to study advanced hybrid methods combining high order, adaptive, monotone capturing techniques developed in an Eulerian or ALE setting, with fitting techniques and fully Lagrangian approaches.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners
  • We entertain since many years a collaboration with Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal (Quebec), and in particular with Prof. Francois Morency, on the modelling of wing icing

  • Collaboration with Universitá La Sapienza i (Prof. Renato Paciorri) and Universitá della Basilicata (Prof. Aldo Bonfiglioli) on the development of shock fitting techniques. We have regular exchanges of mutual visits and of students (this year Mirco Ciallella)

  • We collaborate with Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Alberto Guardone) on the development of adaptive mesh techniques for time dependent problems. Within this collaboration Luca Cirrottola has spend part of his PhD in CARDAMOM

  • We work with DTU Compute in Denmark (Prof. Allan-Peter Engsig Karup) and with and RISE in Sweden (Dr. Claes Eskilsson) on the simulation of free surface flows with floating structures. The PhD of U. Bosi is partially (and informally) co-supervised by Prof. Engsig-Karup and Dr. Eskilsson

  • We work with Alireza Mazaheri (NASA LaRC, Virginia) on high order adaptive discretizations for compressible flows. Marco Lorini visited the NASA center in March/April