..., further slowing the flow. At the smallest scale, the tentacles are covered in tiny pinnules where exchange occurs. In this paper, we quantified the gap to diameter ratios for various gorgonians at the scale of the branches, the polyp tentacles and the pinnules. We then used computational fluid dynamics...

... corals generate continual flow towards the polyp, allow slow mixing between the bristles, and eject this fluid in an upward jet to maximize mixing. Soft corals Xeniidae Biomechanics Computational fluid dynamics Lagrangian particle tracking Flow is important to all aspects of life...

... joint work in water just as they do at the lower limb on land. Swimming Kinetics Load Inverse dynamics Computational fluid dynamics Humans move in water, sometimes undulating ventrally and ricocheting at the surface when swimming butterfly, sometimes paddling dorsally in a windmill...

...://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Highlighted Article: Long bristles on the wings of the smallest insects reduce the force required to ‘fling’ the wings apart while still maintaining lift. Insect flight Biomechanics Clap and fling Intermediate Reynolds numbers Computational fluid dynamics...

...-conditioning performance. Furthermore, the maxillary sinus (MS), an accessory hollow communicating with the nasal cavity, is found in macaques, whereas it is absent in most other extant Old World monkeys, including savanna monkeys. In this study, we used computational fluid dynamics simulations to simulate...

..., 2008 ). To understand the relationship between body shape and body movements on the one hand and the resulting flow patterns and swimming performance on the other hand, we need computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to provide data on propulsive forces ( Liu et al., 1996 ; Liu et al., 1997 ; Liu...

..., waste elimination and gamete distribution ( Arai, 1996 ; Welsh et al., 2009 ). jellyfish biomechanics computational fluid dynamics feeding current mathematical model © 2011. 2011 6 2 2011 * Author for correspondence ( lam9@email.unc.edu ) ...

... of various types of jumps, we computed the imposed flow fields and associated energetics of jumps by means of computational fluid dynamics simulations by modeling the copepod as a self-propelled body. The computational fluid dynamics simulation was validated by particle image velocimetry data. The flow field...

... towards a wall. These measurements, combined with computational fluid dynamics models, were used to estimate the stimulus to the lateral line system of the fish. Our results showed that there was a high-pressure region around the nose of the fish, low-pressure regions corresponding to accelerated flow...

... their lateral line sensory system. Hence the fish are able to build hydrodynamic images of their surroundings. This study measured the flow fields around blind cave fish using particle image velocimetry (PIV) as they swam parallel to a wall. Computational fluid dynamics models were also used to calculate...

... of the International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) 2000 (ed. H. Aref and J. W. Phillips). New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Miller, L. A. and Peskin, C. S. ( 2005 ). A computational fluid dynamics of `clap and fling' in the smallest insects. J. Exp. Biol. 208 , 195 -212...

...@gtalumni.org ) 29 5 2009 2009 locomotion medusae fluid mechanics flow patterns propulsion computational fluid dynamics ALE methods unstructured finite volume Medusae propel themselves by contracting a band of circular muscles that line the inner surface of their bell...

...Mark A. Rapo; Houshuo Jiang; Mark A. Grosenbaugh; Sheryl Coombs SUMMARY This paper presents the first computational fluid dynamics (CFD)simulations of viscous flow due to a small sphere vibrating near a fish, a configuration that is frequently used for experiments on dipole source localization...

... computational fluid dynamics, Sun and Yu( 2003 ) found that lift is also enhanced for some time during the translational phase of the stroke following a simple fling at Re =17. They did not, however, consider this effect for different Re . There is reason to believe that the lift enhancing effects...

...Laura A. Miller; Charles S. Peskin SUMMARY We have used computational fluid dynamics to study changes in lift generation and vortex dynamics for Reynolds numbers ( Re ) between 8 and 128. The immersed boundary method was used to model a two-dimensional wing through one stroke cycle. We calculated...

... for correspondence (e-mail: sunmao@public.fhnet.cn.net ) 6 1 2004 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004 flapping wing insect computational fluid dynamics unsteady aerodynamics delayed stall force coefficients It has been shown that conventional aerodynamic theory, which...

... is dimensionally independent. In such cases,the 2D unsteady forces turn out to be good approximations of 3D experiments. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: jane.wang@cornell.edu ) 3 10 2003 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004 insect flight computational fluid dynamics...

...Mao Sun; Jiang Hao Wu SUMMARY Aerodynamic force generation and power requirements in forward flight in a fruit fly with modeled wing motion were studied using the method of computational fluid dynamics. The Navier-Stokes equations were solved numerically. The solution provided the flow velocity...

...Mao Sun; Jian Tang SUMMARY The lift and power requirements for hovering flight in Drosophila virilis were studied using the method of computational fluid dynamics. The Navier-Stokes equations were solved numerically. The solution provided the flow velocity and pressure fields, from which...

...Mao Sun; Jian Tang SUMMARY A computational fluid-dynamic analysis was conducted to study the unsteady aerodynamics of a model fruit fly wing. The wing performs an idealized flapping motion that emulates the wing motion of a fruit fly in normal hovering flight. The Navier–Stokes equations are solved...