Zichen Liu^1,2, Bowen Zhu³, Gaojin Li^1,2,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 1-2, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09836

Abstract The ubiquitous cooperative locomotion in a fluid has long been considered to gain evolutionary advantages by increasing the efficiency of the living creatures. Synchronization between undulatory swimmers, such as spermatozoa and eels at low and high Reynolds numbers respectively, has attracted much attention for its theoretical importance in fluid dynamics. Such swimmers propel themselves by generating travelling waves along their bodies or flagella. To understand the hydrodynamic interaction between the waving motions, we numerically and analytically study the infinite 2D waving-sheet model introduced by Taylor using the method of perturbation on the basis of small… More >

Mengfan Xu¹, Yongliang Yu^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 1-2, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09812

Abstract During the steady swimming of carangiform or anguilliform swimmers, the fish body shows significant fluctuation characteristics. The formation of waving body is not only related to the driving force of fish muscle, but also to the material properties of fish body and fluid forces. In fluid mechanics, the propulsive force of fish body is closely related to reverse Kármán vortex street. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of the work done by the driving force, the formation of the fluctuation and propulsion of the fish. Based on the kinematic chain integration framework,… More >

R. Avila¹, S. N. Atluri²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.54, No.1, pp. 15-64, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.054.015

Abstract The Meshless Local Petrov Galerkin (MLPG) method is used to solve the non-steady two dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. Transient laminar flow field calculations have been carried out in domains wherein certain surfaces have: (i) a sliding motion, (ii) a harmonic motion, (iii) an undulatory movement, and (iv) a contraction-expansion movement. The weak form of the governing equations has been formulated in a Cartesian coordinate system and taking into account the primitive variables of the flow field. A fully implicit pressure correction approach, which requires at each time step an iterative process to solve in a sequential… More >