We present some recent advances and improvements in shape parametrisation techniques of interfaces for reduced-order modelling with special attention to fluid–structure interaction problems and the management of structural deformations, namely, to represent them into a low-dimensional space (by control points). This allows to reduce the computational effort, and to significantly simplify the (geometrical) deformation procedure, leading to more efficient and fast reduced-order modelling applications in this kind of problems. We propose an efficient methodology to select the geometrical control points for the radial basis functions based on a modal greedy algorithm to improve the computational efficiency in view of more complex fluid–structure applications in several fields. The examples provided deal with aeronautics and wind engineering.

@ARTICLE{FortiRozza2014,
author = {Forti, D. and Rozza, G.},
title = {Efficient geometrical parametrisation techniques of interfaces for
reduced-order modelling: application to fluid--structure interaction
coupling problems},
journal = {International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics},
year = {2014},
volume = {28},
pages = {158--169},
number = {3-4},
doi = {10.1080/10618562.2014.932352}
}