Flexible slender structures are ubiquitous in biological systems and engineering
applications. Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) plays a key role in the dynamics of such …

Recently, energy harvesting through periodic snapping, namely snap-through, has gained
significant attention for energy harvesting applications. In this study, the snapping dynamics …

Cataract scatters the light as it enters the eye, blurs images and severely interferes people's
daily activities. The only effective therapy is cataract surgery, in which the clouded lens is …

Myriads of cilia beat on ciliated epithelia, which are ubiquitous in life. When ciliary beats are
synchronized, metachronal waves emerge, whose direction of propagation depends on the …

ABSTRACT A new flow control strategy based on leading-edge vortex (LEV) manipulation is
proposed to improve the aerodynamic performance of a plunging airfoil. It has been found …

Cilia are micro-scale hair-like organelles. They can exhibit self-sustained oscillations which
play crucial roles in flow transport or locomotion. Recent studies have shown that these …

Energy harvesting through periodic snap-through of a buckled sheet has recently gained
considerable attention because of its potential applications in energy harvesting in low …

The penalty immersed-boundary method was utilized to investigate the hydrodynamics of
frequency-modulated bursting in a three-dimensional self-propelled flexible plate. In the …

This study presents a dual-channel vortex generator (VG) that leverages the snap-through
behaviour of flexible sheets. The VG outperforms a similar-sized rigid VG in generating …

A channel with one backward-facing step and one forward-facing step is a typical
configuration in engineering applications. In the channel, good heat transfer performance is …