The Challenge

Fluid phenomena play important roles in everyday life--- as blowing winds, jet streams, chemical dispersion, granular flows, ocean waves and currents, et cetera. Although these phenomena are commonplace, they are fascinating, visually and physically, for the effects they produce. Mathematical models that describe them properly are nonlinear and lead to computational simulation processes that are very complex and challenging to perform efficiently; the intricate interplay of essential processes such as convection, diffusion, turbulence, surface tension, and their interaction with rigid and deformable solids demands careful attention to stability, temporal and spatial scales, and domain representations. This work explores the phenomena of high-energy fluid elastic solid interaction. The two simulations, elastic and fluid, are computed separately and coupled in time. This splitting greatl