Leaves have developed various functional structures to enhance plant survival, making
them the most typical bionic prototypes. Bionic research inspired by plant leaves has yielded …

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is a class of mechanics-related problems with mutual
dependence between the fluid and structure parts and it is observable nearly everywhere, in …

This review describes mean and turbulent flow and mass transport in the presence of
aquatic vegetation. Within emergent canopies, the turbulent length scales are set by the …

Plant posture can play a key role in the health of aquatic vegetation, by setting drag,
controlling light availability, and mediating the exchange of nutrients and oxygen. We study …

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 …

In this paper, we present an experimental and numerical study that describes the motion of
flexible blades, scaled to be dynamically similar to natural aquatic vegetation, forced by …

The presence of vegetation modifies flow and sediment transport in alluvial channels and
hence the morphological evolution of river systems. Plants increase the local roughness …

The production and use of plastics have increased exponentially in the past decades,
leading to a corresponding increment in plastics waste generation. Globally, a significant …

Previous studies have considered vegetative drag at different scales, the blade scale, the
patch scale, and the reach scale, but few studies have considered the connection between …

Natural and engineered surfaces are never smooth, but irregular, rough at different scales,
compliant, possibly porous, liquid impregnated or superhydrophobic. The correct numerical …