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Finite-time contact in fluid-elastic structure interaction: Navier-slip coupling condition

Krutika Tawri·Nash Ward
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We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem involving a viscous, incompressible fluid flow, modeled by the 2D Navier-Stokes equations, through a thin deformable elastic tube, displacement of which is not known a priori. The elastodynamics problem is given by 1D plate equations. The fluid and the structure are nonlinearly coupled via the kinematic and dynamic coupling conditions at the fluid-structure interface. The fluid flow is driven by dynamic pressure data imposed at the inlet and outlet of the tube. We impose the Navier-slip boundary condition at the deformable fluid-structure interface and at the bottom rigid boundary of the fluid domain. Hence, beyond the usual geometric nonlinearities arising from nonlinear coupling in FSI with no-slip, the analysis is more challenging due to the possibility of tangential jumps of the fluid and structural velocities at the moving interface. We first discuss the existence of weak solutions and then establish a `hidden' spatial regularity result for the structure displacement. Our main result proves the existence of a finite time for weak solutions at which the compliant upper boundary meets the lower boundary (i.e., the tube collapses), provided that there is a sufficient pressure drop across the channel. This resolves the ''no-collision'' paradox identified by Grandmont and Hillairet in the no-slip setting in [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 220(3): 1283-1333, (2016)], the counterpart to the present work. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that rigorously establishes finite-time contact in a fluid-elastic structure interaction system, thereby validating the model to correctly capture near-contact dynamics.

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Krutika Tawri, Nash Ward. 2026-04-07. Finite-time contact in fluid-elastic structure interaction: Navier-slip coupling condition. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06362

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