Daisuke Ishihara^*, Syunnosuke Nozaki, Tomoya Niho, Naoto Takayama

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.2, pp. 1371-1386, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.049694 - 20 May 2024

Abstract The inverse and direct piezoelectric and circuit coupling are widely observed in advanced electro-mechanical systems such as piezoelectric energy harvesters. Existing strongly coupled analysis methods based on direct numerical modeling for this phenomenon can be classified into partitioned or monolithic formulations. Each formulation has its advantages and disadvantages, and the choice depends on the characteristics of each coupled problem. This study proposes a new option: a coupled analysis strategy that combines the best features of the existing formulations, namely, the hybrid partitioned-monolithic method. The analysis of inverse piezoelectricity and the monolithic analysis of direct piezoelectric More >

Minato Onishi¹, Daisuke Ishihara^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.121, No.1, pp. 145-175, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.06781

Abstract This study proposed a partitioned method to analyze maneuvering of insects during flapping flight. This method decomposed the insect flapping flight into wing and body subsystems and then coupled them via boundary conditions imposed on the wing’s base using one-way coupling. In the wing subsystem, the strong coupling of the flexible wings and surrounding fluid was accurately analyzed using the finite element method to obtain the thrust forces acting on the insect’s body. The resulting thrust forces were passed from the wing subsystem to the body subsystem, and then rigid body motion was analyzed in… More >

Tomonori Yamada¹, Shinobu Yoshimura¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 51-60, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2008.024.051

Abstract Flight dynamics of flapping insects is still an open area of research, though it is well known that they can provide superior flight abilities such as hovering motion. The numerical analysis of flapping wing requires fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis to evaluate the effect of deformable wing on flight ability. Such FSI analysis is quite challenging because not only the tight coupling approach to predict flight ability accurately, but also the robust mesh control to trace the large motion of the wing with elastic deformation are required. A new iterative partitioned coupling algorithm for the FSI More >