Pulse flow of liquid in flexible tube

Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Victor Kaplan Department of Fluids Engineering, Technická 2, 61669 Brno, Czech Republic

^* Corresponding author: klas@fme.vutbr.cz

Published online: 28 June 2019

Abstract

The simulation of liquid flow in significantly deformed elastic material is one of the more challenging tasks. Tube wall motion prediction implemented directly into CFD software can noticeably reduce the computational and time demands of such problems. The FSI simulation of a liquid-flowed flexible plastic tube was analyzed on the FEA and CFD solvers coupling basis. The flexible tube is the basic symmetric test body that could be appropriately tested on the experimental stand. A comparison of experimental data and FSI problem using commercial code and one-dimensional tube models was made by evaluating the tube wall deformation magnitudes at defined flow ratios. The type of tube material, which can be understood as a nonlinear from the stress and deformation point of view, was considered. The paper shows several possibilities of tube modeling using the main constitutive relations of linear and nonlinear mechanics. The hyperelastic material models such as neo-Hookean and Mooney-Rivlin were tested. The results represent differences in impacts on the tube liquid flow and differences in the magnitudes of the wall tube deformations. Based on these findings it should be possible to simulate the problems of liquid flow in more complicated shape flow zones, such as arteries affected by various defects, in our future research.