Flapping and bending bodies interacting with fluid flows

MJ Shelley, J Zhang - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Drag reduction of flexible plates by reconfiguration

F Gosselin, E De Langre… - Journal of Fluid …, 2010 - cambridge.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] An immersed boundary method based on the lattice Boltzmann approach in three dimensions, with application

L Zhu, G He, S Wang, L Miller, X Zhang, Q You… - … & Mathematics with …, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A momentum exchange-based immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for simulating a flexible filament in an incompressible flow

HZ Yuan, XD Niu, S Shu, M Li, H Yamaguchi - Computers & Mathematics …, 2014 - Elsevier
A momentum exchange-based immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method, which is used
to solve the fluid–flexible-structure-interaction problem, is introduced in this paper. The …

A general formulation of Bead Models applied to flexible fibers and active filaments at low Reynolds number

B Delmotte, E Climent, F Plouraboué - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
This contribution provides a general framework to use Lagrange multipliers for the
simulation of low Reynolds number fiber dynamics based on Bead Models (BM). This …

Artificial neural network based response surface for data-driven dimensional analysis

Z Xu, X Zhang, S Wang, G He - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
The classical dimensional analysis method has limitations in determining the uniqueness
and relative importance of the dimensionless quantities. A machine-learning based …

Orientation, distribution, and deformation of inertial flexible fibers in turbulent channel flow

D Dotto, C Marchioli - Acta Mechanica, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of flexible fibers in turbulent channel flow. Fibers
are longer than the Kolmogorov length scale of the carrier flow, and their velocity relative to …

Drag reduction by elastic reconfiguration of non-uniform beams in non-uniform flows

T Leclercq, E de Langre - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

A fixed‐grid b‐spline finite element technique for fluid–structure interaction

T Rüberg, F Cirak - … Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a fixed‐grid finite element technique for fluid–structure interaction problems
involving incompressible viscous flows and thin structures. The flow equations are …

Flow–plant interactions at leaf, stem and shoot scales: drag, turbulence, and biomechanics

I Albayrak, V Nikora, O Miler, MT O'Hare - Aquatic sciences, 2014 - Springer
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 …