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This post is very belated. In August, I gave a webinar through MECHS, a research coordination network funded by the National Science Foundation, on the potential use of real-time hybrid simulation for wave-structure interaction problems. See the webinar below. The website for MECHS can be found here: https://mechs.designsafe-ci.org/

Although my background is in earthquake engineering, I’ve recently been fascinated by wave-structure interaction problems. From a structural perspective, we are often focused on deformations due to external loading on the structure. In contrast, fluid mechanics is often focused on the effects of boundary conditions on the fluid flow. In some situations, the solid and…

I’ve often used similitude requirements to argue for the use of real-time hybrid simulation in fluid-structure interaction experiments. Wave basin and flume experiments are, often by necessity, scaled due to the size and capacity limitations of the facility. This often results in small-scale structural models. There are three types of similitude: geometric, kinematic, and dynamic.…