4 The included solid mechanics solvers employ the finite volume method
5 (not finite elements/elephants) to numerically approximate the
6 displacements and stresses in solid bodies undergoing deformation.
8 The included solvers feature the following capabilities:
10 small strain with large rotations
12 Mises-Levy J2 plasticity
16 fluid-structure interactions
17 multi-material analyses
18 contact stress analysis with friction
19 small strain orthotropic elasticity
20 large strain orthotropic elasticity
23 arbitrary crack propagation
24 custom boundary conditions
25 Aitken's under-relaation for displacement field
27 A number of people have contributed to the development of the solvers,
28 mainly within Alojz Ivankovic's research group. The code has been
29 assembled and is maintained by Philip Cardiff (University College Dublin),
30 and significant contributions have been made by Aleksandar Karac, Zeljko
31 Tukovic, Hrvoje Jasak, Declan Carolan, Michael Leonard, Valentine
32 Kanyanta, David McAuliffe, Declan McNamara and Tian Tang.
40 The folowing references are relevant and citations are welcome:
42 Cardiff P, Karać A & Ivanković A, A Large Strain Finite Volume Method for
43 Orthotropic Bodies with General Material Orientations, Computer Methods
44 in Applied Mechanics & Engineering, 2013,
45 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2013.09.008.
47 Cardiff P, Karać A & Ivanković A, Development of a finite volume contact
48 solver based on the penalty method. Computational Materials Science, 64
49 283-284, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.03.011.
51 Cardiff P, Karać A, Tuković Z & Ivanković A, Development of a finite volume
52 based structural solver for large rotation of non-orthogonal meshes, 7th
53 OpenFOAM Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, 2012.
55 Tuković Z, Ivanković A & Karać A, Finite volume stress analysis in multi-
56 material linear elastic body. International Journal for Numerical Methods
57 in Engineering, 2012. doi:10.1002/nme.
59 Carolan D, Tuković Z, Murphy N, Ivanković A, Arbitrary crack propagation
60 in multi-phase materials using the finite volume method, Computational
61 Materials Science, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.11.049.
63 Tuković Z & Jasak H, Updated lagrangian finite volume solver for large
64 deformation dynamic response of elastic body. Transactions of FAMENA,
67 Jasak H & Tuković Z, Dynamic mesh handling in OpenFOAM applied to fluid-
68 structure interaction simulations, 5th European Conference on Computational
69 Fluid Dynamics ECCOMAS CFD, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.
71 Tuković Z & Jasak H, Finite volume method for fluid-strucutre-interaction
72 with large structural displacements, 2nd OpenFOAM Workshop, Zagreb, 2007.
74 Jasak H & Weller H, Finite volume methodology for contact problems of linear
75 elastic solids, 3rd International Conference of Croatian Society of Mechanics,
76 pages 253–260, Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Crotatia, 2000.
78 Jasak H & Weller H, Application of the finite volume method and unstructured
79 meshes to linear elasticity, International Journal for Numerical Methods in
80 Engineering, pages 267–287, 2000.
82 Maneeratana K, Development of the finite volume method for non-linear
83 structural applications, PhD thesis, Imperial College London, 2000.
85 Cardiff P, Development of the finite volume method for hip joint stress
86 analysis, PhD thesis, University College Dublin, 2012.
88 Tang T, Hededal O, Cardif P, Roenby J, A Finite Volume Method solver for
89 non-linear soil stress analysis using OpenFOAM, 8th OpenFOAM Workshop,