Stability of the kinematically coupled β-scheme for fluid-structure interaction problems in hemodynamics
For researchers in hemodynamics and computational FSI, this provides a stable partitioned scheme without the added-mass instability, addressing a known bottleneck.
The paper proves that the kinematically coupled β-scheme for fluid-structure interaction is unconditionally stable for all parameters, overcoming the added-mass effect that causes instability in classical schemes. Numerical results confirm unconditional stability on a benchmark problem.
It is well-known that classical Dirichlet-Neumann loosely coupled partitioned schemes for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems are unconditionally unstable for certain combinations of physical and geometric parameters that are relevant in hemodynamics. It was shown in \cite{causin2005added} on a simple test problem, that these instabilities are associated with the so called ``added-mass effect''. By considering the same test problem as in \cite{causin2005added}, the present work shows that a novel, partitioned, loosely coupled scheme, recently introduced in \cite{MarSun}, called the kinematically coupled $β$-scheme, does not suffer from the added mass effect for any $β\in [0,1]$, and is unconditionally stable for all the parameters in the problem. Numerical results showing unconditional stability are presented for a full, nonlinearly coupled benchmark FSI problem, first considered in \cite{formaggia2001coupling}.