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Monolithic framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction problems using geometric volume-of-fluid method

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Pith's one-line read This paper develops a fixed-grid, one-continuum solver in which a sharp geometric volume-of-fluid interface (PLIC reconstruction, Lagrangian-Explicit advection) tracks a viscous hyperelastic solid through a deforming flow, and reports…

desk verdict Genuinely new 3D geometric-VOF FSI framework with extensive validation; the B=I reset near the interface is the main thing to probe, but this deserves peer review. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.22920 v1 pith:SVG3JYG6 submitted 2025-05-28 physics.flu-dyn physics.comp-ph

Soham Prajapati (1) , Ali Fakhreddine (1) , Krishnan Mahesh (1 , 2) ((1) Department of Aerospace Engineering , Mechanics , University of Minnesota - Twin Cities , Minneapolis , Minnesota
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classification physics.flu-dynphysics.comp-ph
keywords fluid-structureinteractiongeometricvolume-of-fluidPLICinterfacereconstructionviscoushyperelasticsolidsleftCauchy-GreendeformationtensorturbulentchannelflowfixedCartesiangridone-continuumformulation
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The reading

This paper aims to show that the geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method, with piecewise-linear interface reconstruction (PLIC), can serve as the interface-capturing core of a three-dimensional monolithic solver for fluid-structure interaction. The solver treats the fluid and a viscous hyperelastic solid as a single continuum on a fixed Cartesian grid, tracking solid deformation through a deformation tensor field rather than through a moving mesh. The paper's central claim is that this sharp-interface approach avoids the classic VOF failure modes -- floating solid fragments and spurious surface currents -- and that a 128x128 run can match a diffusive interface-capturing method run on a 1024x1024 grid. If true, turbulent flows over deformable solids can be simulated on modest grids without problem-dependent stabilization or interface reinitialization.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the solid volume fraction $\phi$, a cell-averaged Heaviside indicator, and the left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor $B$. The interface is captured geometrically: PLIC reconstructs a planar interface in each cell from $\phi$ using finite-difference normal estimates and analytical volume relations, and Lagrangian Explicit directionally split advection moves the reconstructed segments, with cyclic sweep rotation and a clipping step that discards fragments below a tolerance of $\epsilon_c = 10^{-8}$. Solid deformation is carried by $B$, transported by its upper-convected derivative using fifth-order WENO-Z (weighted essentially non-oscillatory) finite-difference advection, and then converted to hyperelastic stress through linear and nonlinear versions. The unified momentum and incompressibility equations are solved with a finite-volume fractional-step method, using a multigrid-preconditioned conjugate-gradient Poisson solve; near-interface cells with $\phi < \epsilon_c$ have their deformation tensor reset to the identity to prevent unbounded growth.

What would settle it

A concrete test is to run the shear-flow reversibility problem with a thin solid sheet whose thickness spans only one or two computational cells, and to vary the clipping tolerance between $10^{-6}$ and $10^{-10}$ while measuring the final shape error. If the sheet's deformation or the recovered shape changes with the tolerance, the $B=I$ reset is controlling the interface stress and the method's coarse-grid accuracy claim does not extend to thin solids.

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Core claim

The central claim is that a sharp geometric VOF/PLIC interface is not only viable but advantageous for three-dimensional FSI. According to the paper, the framework maintains a sharp fluid-solid interface and mass conservation by construction, produces no nonphysical solid fragments even when a soft body is stretched near a moving lid or pinched between surfaces, and remains free of spurious surface oscillations at steady states. The benchmark evidence includes a compliant wall in a lid-driven cavity, soft and stiff disks in a lid-driven cavity, a reversibility test for a nonlinear hyperelastic disk in shear flow, a sphere in a three-dimensional lid-driven cavity, and a DNS of turbulent channel flow over a deformable compliant wall. The authors report that the disk-centroid trajectory computed on a 128x128 grid agrees with the reference diffusive method on a 1024x1024 grid, and that the turbulent compliant-wall simulation reproduces previously reported spanwise-aligned deformation patterns, enhanced near-wall Reynolds stresses, and counter-rotating spanwise rolls inside the wall. They state that, to their knowledge, this is the first 3D FSI framework built on the geometric VOF/PLIC method and applied to turbulent FSI.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is the ad hoc rule that cells holding less than a tiny volume fraction of solid have their deformation history erased (the tensor $B$ is reset to the identity), which must not distort the hyperelastic stress that drives the interface.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Coarse-grid parity: a VOF/PLIC interface on 128x128 matches a diffusive WENO interface on 1024x1024 for the disk centroid trajectory, so users can exchange grid resolution for interface sharpness.
  • No fragments or oscillations: the solver reports no flotsam under severe stretching and pinching, and no spurious surface oscillations at equilibrium, so long-time FSI runs retain mass and stability.
  • No problem-dependent stabilization: unlike level-set or diffusive methods, the framework does not require reinitialization or fine grids to keep the interface sharp.
  • Turbulent applicability: the DNS of a compliant wall reproduces spanwise-aligned deformation patterns, enhanced Reynolds stresses, and counter-rotating spanwise rolls that resemble surface waves, demonstrating the solver can handle turbulent FSI.
  • Non-uniform meshes: aspect-ratio tests show the implementation works for cuboidal cells with AR=1, 2, and 4, which is needed for practical boundary-layer meshes.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The apparent 64x resolution advantage is likely a property of sharp interface capturing rather than of VOF specifically; a similar gain should appear for any sharp-interface method paired with the same incompressible flow solver.
  • The $B=I$ reset ties accuracy to the clipping tolerance and to cell size relative to solid thickness; thin or highly stretched solids are the regime where the method's interface-stress treatment would need a more principled way to keep deformation history.
  • Because solid shapes are initialized by prescribing $\phi$, the framework is naturally suited to complex surface geometries; a testable extension is simulating a turbulent boundary layer over a patch of compliant roughness similar to biofouling.
  • The observed spanwise roll structure inside the compliant wall suggests the method could be used to systematically scan wall parameters such as stiffness, thickness, and viscosity for drag reduction, a direction the paper does not pursue.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops a three-dimensional monolithic Eulerian framework for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) on a fixed Cartesian grid, using the geometric volume-of-fluid method with PLIC reconstruction and Lagrangian-Explicit split advection to capture the fluid-solid interface. The fluid and solid are treated in a one-continuum formulation with a volume-fraction-weighted momentum equation; hyperelastic solids are modeled with neo-Hookean or Saint Venant-Kirchhoff laws via the left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor B, whose advection is discretized with fifth-order WENO-Z. The solver is validated against a series of benchmarks: rigid slotted-disk advection, compliant wall and deformable disk in lid-driven cavities, a reversibility test for a disk in shear flow, a 3D deformable sphere in a lid-driven cavity, and DNS of turbulent channel flow with a compliant bottom wall. The authors claim that the VOF/PLIC approach maintains a sharp, stable interface without flotsam or spurious currents, and that its accuracy on coarse grids is comparable to diffusive interface-capturing methods on much finer grids.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this is a useful contribution: it extends geometric VOF/PLIC, with its mass-conservation and sharp-interface properties, to fully Eulerian FSI in three dimensions, including turbulent flows. The paper's strengths are its broad validation suite against independent published results (Zhao et al., Sugiyama et al., Ii et al., Valizadeh et al., Moser et al., Rosti and Brandt, Esteghamatian et al.), the grid-convergence and reversibility tests, and the absence of parameter fitting to reproduce benchmark targets. These features make the work potentially valuable for simulating compliant coatings, biofouling, and other soft-body flow interactions. However, the main technical risk is an ad hoc reset of the deformation tensor in near-interface cells, which is not analyzed, and the headline coarse-grid accuracy claim is supported only by qualitative comparisons in the key benchmark.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 2.2.2] The reset 'B = I for phi_{i,j,k} < epsilon_c' is an ad hoc stabilization that discards all deformation history in cells whose solid volume fraction is below the clipping tolerance. Since the hyperelastic stress sigma^hy_ij = G_s(B_ij - delta_ij) enters the one-continuum momentum equation through Eq. (10), this reset can alter the effective stiffness experienced by thin or highly stretched solid regions, such as the soft disk in Sec. 3.3 and the compliant wall in Sec. 3.6. The manuscript provides no sensitivity study, no estimate of the solid mass affected, and no test of the reset's influence on the benchmark results. Please quantify the effect of epsilon_c (e.g., by varying it over several orders of magnitude for at least one benchmark) and, if possible, compare against a run without the reset. Without this analysis, the benchmark agreements and the coarse-grid accuracy claim are not fully established.
  2. [Section 3.3 and Conclusions] The central claim that VOF/PLIC on a 128x128 grid agrees well with Sugiyama et al. on a 1024x1024 grid is supported primarily by qualitative shape overlays (Fig. 9) and a centroid trajectory plot (Fig. 11). The paper should provide quantitative error measures, such as the L2 error of the centroid trajectory or interface position relative to the reference fine-grid solution, and should also report the difference between the present 128x128 result and the reference 1024x1024 result. This is load-bearing for the paper's headline claim that sharp VOF/PLIC is as accurate on coarse grids as diffusive methods on much finer grids.
  3. [Section 3.6] The turbulent channel flow with a compliant wall is presented as a demonstration of the framework's capability, but the comparison with past works (Esteghamatian et al., Rosti and Brandt, Wang et al.) is qualitative, and no grid-resolution study is reported for this case. The non-uniform wall-normal grid with a uniform near-interface region should be justified with a resolution study, and quantitative comparisons of at least the mean velocity profile, Reynolds stresses, and surface deformation statistics should be provided. As written, the turbulent FSI claim remains qualitative and is not yet supported at the same level as the lower-Reynolds-number benchmarks.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 2.2.2] The clipping tolerance epsilon_c = 10^-8 is used 'for all problems' without justification; a brief explanation of how this value was chosen and whether results are sensitive to it would be helpful.
  2. [Section 2.2.1, Eq. (18)] The sign convention in the Adams-Bashforth update for B is confusing: the source term is added while the advection term is subtracted. Please clarify that this follows directly from Eq. (16) and define the notation for the advection term more explicitly.
  3. [Fig. 11] The legend includes 'Sugiyama et al. (128 x 128)' but the text does not discuss this comparison; please comment on how the present 128x128 result compares with Sugiyama's own 128x128 result, as this would directly support the coarse-grid claim.
  4. [General] The manuscript contains production placeholders ('Received: Added at production', 'DOI: xxx/xxxx', 'Journal ;00:1-26') that should be removed before final submission.
  5. [General] No code or data are made available. For a numerical methods paper, releasing at least the benchmark setup and, ideally, the solver itself would greatly strengthen reproducibility and allow independent verification of the coarse-grid claim.

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No significant circularity: central claims rest on independent external benchmarks and fixed numerical choices, not on fitted parameters or self-referential derivations.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained. The method is validated by direct comparison to independent external references (Zhao et al., Sugiyama et al., Ii et al., Valizadeh et al., Moser et al., Rosti & Brandt, Esteghamatian et al.), and no parameter is fitted to a subset of the data and then presented as a prediction. The coarse-grid versus fine-grid statement is an observed comparison to an independent 1024x1024 reference solution, not an identity imposed by construction. The ad hoc reset 'we set B = I for phi_{i,j,k} < epsilon_c' in Section 2.2.2 is a fixed numerical stabilization chosen a priori from clipping and round-off considerations, not calibrated to reproduce any benchmark target; it is a correctness/robustness concern, not circularity. Self-citations to the group's FVM solver and to Alamé's thesis are used for implementation details and prior turbulence work, and they do not carry the load of the paper's central validation claims.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced. The only hand-chosen numerical parameter is the clipping tolerance epsilon_c used for volume fraction clipping and the B reset. The axioms are the standard one-continuum stress mixture, incompressibility of both phases, the B transport equation, and the established geometric VOF procedures.

free parameters (1)
  • clipping tolerance epsilon_c = 1e-8
    Hand-chosen threshold used to clip volume fractions after advection and to decide where B is reset to identity; set to 1e-8 for all problems (Section 2.2.2).
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Stress at the interface is modeled as a volume-fraction-weighted mixture: sigma_ij = phi sigma_s + (1-phi) sigma_f (Eq. 10), which the authors state 'essentially satisfies' traction continuity (Eq. 4).
    One-continuum formulation relies on this mixture stress to couple the two subdomains; it is an approximation of the dynamic interface condition, not an exact enforcement.
  • domain assumption Both fluid and solid are incompressible (Eqs. 1 and 2); the solid is an incompressible Mooney-Rivlin material.
    The incompressibility constraint is applied in both subdomains, and the hyperelastic models (neo-Hookean, Saint Venant-Kirchhoff) are the incompressible Mooney-Rivlin subsets used in the cited prior works.
  • ad hoc to paper B is reset to identity in cells with phi < epsilon_c to prevent exponential growth near the interface.
    This is an ad hoc numerical fix introduced in Section 2.2.2; its effect on accuracy in thin or highly stretched solid regions is not analyzed.
  • standard math The upper-convected time derivative of the left Cauchy-Green tensor B is zero (Eq. 16).
    Standard result in continuum mechanics, used to derive the transport equation for B.
  • standard math The geometric VOF method with PLIC reconstruction and Lagrangian-Explicit directionally split advection conserves mass and captures the interface accurately.
    These are established numerical procedures cited from the literature (e.g., Scardovelli and Zaleski, Gueyffier et al., Alame); the paper does not re-derive their properties.

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We develop a three-dimensional Eulerian framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems on a fixed Cartesian grid using the geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. The coupled problem involves incompressible flow and viscous hyperelastic solids. A VOF-based one-continuum formulation is used to describe the unified momentum conservation equations with incompressibility constraints that are solved using the finite volume method (FVM). In the geometric VOF interface-capturing (IC) approach, the PLIC method is used to reconstruct the interface, and the Lagrangian Explicit (LE) method is used in the directionally split advection procedure. To model the hyperelastic behavior of the solid, we consider Mooney-Rivlin material models, where we use the left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor (B) to account for the solid deformation on an Eulerian grid and the fifth-order WENO-Z reconstruction method is utilized to treat the advection terms involved in the transport equation of B. Multiple benchmark problems are considered to verify the accuracy of the approach. Furthermore, to demonstrate the capability of the solver to handle turbulent interactions, we perform direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent channel flow with a deformable compliant bottom wall and a rigid top wall; our observations align well with previous experimental and numerical works. The detailed numerical experiments show that: (i) Despite the discontinuity of the interface across the cell boundaries and stress discontinuity across the interface, a VOF/PLIC-based FSI framework can provide stable and accurate solutions that significantly minimizes numerical artifacts (e.g., flotsam and spurious currents) while maintaining a sharp interface. (ii) The accuracy of a VOF/PLIC-based FSI approach on coarse grids is comparable to the accuracy of a diffusive IC method-based FSI approach on much finer grids.

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