The flapping or bending of a flexible planar structure in a surrounding fluid flow, which
includes the flapping of flags and the self-streamlining of flexible bodies, constitutes a …

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

Through an extensive and systematic experimental investigation of two geometries of
flexible plates in air, it is shown that a properly defined scaled Cauchy number allows …

The immersed boundary (IB) method originated by Peskin has been popular in modeling
and simulating problems involving the interaction of a flexible structure and a viscous …

The dynamics of an inverted flexible plate with a free leading-edge and a fixed trailing-edge
in a uniform flow has been studied numerically by an immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann …

Slender flexible structures such as plants are deformed by external flow. When the
deformation is significant, this results in a reduction of drag. We give a theoretical value of …

Self-propulsive performances of the flexible plates undergoing pitching and heaving motions
are investigated numerically. The effects of multiple key dimensionless parameters are …

The interaction between a rigid–flexible system and ambient fluid was simulated numerically
at Re= 300 by the immersed boundary method. The rigid–flexible system consists of a …

Flexible systems bending in steady flows are known to experience a lesser drag compared
to their rigid counterpart. Through a careful dimensional analysis, an analytical expression of …

Flow–plant interactions are experimentally investigated at leaf, stem, and shoot scales in an
open-channel flume at a range of Reynolds numbers. The experiments included …