The aim of this paper is to evaluate how much affects the presence of gravity and free-surface to a flexible structure in a classical fluid structure interaction (FSI) problem typically found in off-shore problems and other oceanic applications. The base problem selected is the Turek benchmark case where a deformable plate is attached to the wake of a circular cylinder. To focus on the differences of considering free surface, a simple geometry has been selected and two different situations have been studied: the first one is the classical Turek benchmark, the second is a similar geometry but adding gravity and free surface. The free surface problem was studied placing the structure at different depths and monitoring the deformation and forces on the structure.
Coupled MPS-modal superposition method for 2D nonlinear fluid-structure interaction problems with free surface
