10.26180/5d3516e558e15 Anup Kundu Anup Kundu Computational Study of Interaction of an Elastic Plate with Laminar Flow Involving Large-scale Flow-induced Deformation Monash University 2019 Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) Flow-inducing flapping Flow-induced deformation Thermal augmentation Pulsatile flow Mechanical Engineering 2019-07-22 01:52:35 Thesis https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Computational_Study_of_Interaction_of_an_Elastic_Plate_with_Laminar_Flow_Involving_Large-scale_Flow-induced_Deformation/8970791 An in-house fluid-structure interaction (FSI) solver has been benchmarked and employed for simulating a thin, elastic plate undergoing large-scale deformation in laminar flow. The solver couples a sharp-interface Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) for the fluid dynamics with an open-source finite-element method to treat the structural dynamics. Four different configurations of fluid-induced oscillations of an elastic plate in laminar flow are investigated to understand the plate dynamics. The largest oscillations of the elastic plate are observed at lock-in condition. Flow-induced deformation of the elastic plate has important applications in the areas of energy harvesting and heat transfer enhancement.