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Fluid Dynamics in Biological, Bio-Inspired, and Environmental Systems
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Fluid Dynamics in Biological, Bio-Inspired, and Environmental Systems

A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521). This special issue belongs to the section "Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 2624

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Prof. Dr. Xing Zhang

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The State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; bio-inspired flow and fluid-structure interactions; turbulence simulation; parallel computing
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Dr. Yaqing Jin

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
Interests: fluid mechanics; renewable energy; fluid–structure interactions; turbulent flow; energy-efficient locomotion
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Dr. Qiang Zhong

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA
Interests: experimental fluid mechanics; robotics; biolocomotion; flow sensing and modeling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Fluid dynamics problems are omnipresent in biological, bio-inspired, and environmental systems. This is a vibrant research area in which newly developed tools have provided us with the capability to tackle more challenging problems. This Special Issue is dedicated to recent advances in theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations of those systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, animal and bio-inspired locomotion, bio-inspired flow sensing and energy harvesting, cardiovascular flow and flow in the respiratory system, the physical dynamics of coastal and estuarine processes, atmospheric flow and air pollution dispersion, groundwater flow and contaminant transport, and canopy flow.

Prof. Dr. Xing Zhang
Dr. Yaqing Jin
Dr. Qiang Zhong
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Keywords

  • fluid dynamics in flying and swimming
  • bio-inspired propulsion, flow sensing and energy harvesting
  • cardiovascular flow and flow in respiratory system
  • tide, atmospheric flow and canopy flow
  • application of machine learning methods to fluid dynamics problems

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Fly by Feel: Flow Event Detection via Bioinspired Wind-Hairs
by Alecsandra Court and Christoph Bruecker
Fluids 2024, 9(3), 74; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fluids9030074 - 15 Mar 2024
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Bio-inspired flexible pillar-like wind-hairs show promise for the future of flying by feel by detecting critical flow events on an aerofoil during flight. To be able to characterise specific flow disturbances from the response of such sensors, quantitative PIV measurements of such flow-disturbance [...] Read more.
Bio-inspired flexible pillar-like wind-hairs show promise for the future of flying by feel by detecting critical flow events on an aerofoil during flight. To be able to characterise specific flow disturbances from the response of such sensors, quantitative PIV measurements of such flow-disturbance patterns were compared with sensor outputs under controlled conditions. Experiments were performed in a flow channel with an aerofoil equipped with a 2D array of such sensors when in uniform inflow conditions compared to when a well-defined gust was introduced upstream and was passing by. The gust was generated through the sudden deployment of a row of flaps on the suction side of a symmetric wing that was placed upstream of the aerofoil with the sensors. The resulting flow disturbance generated a starting vortex with two legs, which resembled a horseshoe-type vortex shed into the wake. Under the same tunnel conditions, PIV measurements were taken downstream of the gust generator to characterise the starting vortex, while further measurements were taken with the sensing pillars on the aerofoil in the same location. The disturbance pattern was compared to the pillar response to demonstrate the potential of flow-sensing pillars. It was found that the pillars could detect the arrival time and structural pattern of the flow disturbance, showing the characteristics of the induced flow field of the starting vortex when passing by. Therefore, such sensor arrays can detect the “footprint” of disturbances as temporal and spatial signatures, allowing us to distinguish those from others or noise. Full article
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Characterization of the Wing Tone around the Antennae of a Mosquito-like Model
by Yongtao Wang, Zhiteng Zhou and Zhuoyu Xie
Fluids 2024, 9(2), 31; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fluids9020031 - 24 Jan 2024
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Mosquitoes’ self-generated air movements around their antennae, especially at the wing-beat frequency, are crucial for both obstacle avoidance and mating communication. However, the characteristics of these air movements are not well clarified. In this study, the air movements induced by wing tones (sound [...] Read more.
Mosquitoes’ self-generated air movements around their antennae, especially at the wing-beat frequency, are crucial for both obstacle avoidance and mating communication. However, the characteristics of these air movements are not well clarified. In this study, the air movements induced by wing tones (sound generated by flapping wings in flight) around the antennae of a mosquito-like model (Culex quinquefasciatus, male) are investigated using the acoustic analogy method. Both the self-generated wing tone and the wing tone reflected from the ground are calculated. Given that the tiny changes in direction and magnitude of air movements can be detected by the mosquito’s antennae, a novel method is introduced to intuitively characterize the air movements induced by the wing tone. The air movements are decomposed into two basic modes (oscillation and revolution). Our results show that, without considering the scattering on the mosquito’s body, the self-generated sound wave of the wing-beat frequency around the antennae mainly induces air oscillation, with the velocity amplitude exceeding the mosquito’s hearing threshold of the male wingbeat frequency by two orders of magnitude. Moreover, when the model is positioned at a distance from the ground greater than approximately two wing lengths, the reflected sound wave at the male wingbeat frequency attenuates below the hearing threshold. That is, the role of reflected wing tone in the mosquito’s obstacle avoidance mechanism appears negligible. Our findings and method may provide insight into how mosquitoes avoid obstacles when their vision is unavailable and inspire the development of collision avoidance systems in micro-aerial vehicles. Full article
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