Muscular hydrostats are organs composed entirely of packed arrays of incompressible
muscles and lacking any skeletal support. Found in both vertebrates and invertebrates, they …

Nearly all fish have flexible bodies that bend as a result of internal muscular forces and
external fluid forces that are dynamically coupled with the mechanical properties of the body …

Simple Summary Fluid-structure interaction algorithms are utilized to examine how the
human circulatory system functions by simulating blood flow and capturing mechanical …

Recent studies on the snap-through motion of elastic sheets have attracted intense interest
in energy-harvesting applications. However, the effect of boundary conditions (BCs) on …

The phenomenon of oscillatory instability called 'flutter'was observed in aeroelasticity and
rotor dynamics about a century ago. Driven by a series of applications involving non …

A collaborative and interdisciplinary strategy spanning hydrodynamics, sophisticated
materials, elasticity, and microelectromechanical systems technologies is required for the …

Wave attenuation by flexible vegetation is an increasingly significant research area in
coastal and ocean engineering. Given the numerical research on flexible vegetation along …

Flagella and cilia are slender structures that serve important functionalities in the
microscopic world through their locomotion induced by fluid and structure interaction. With …

The present work numerically investigates the dynamics of an elastic two-dimensional
cantilever plate fixed at the bottom wall of a channel carrying flow using an open-source …

Flow-induced vibrations can be utilized to harvest energy for micro-air vehicles (MAVs). A
flexible membrane wing with an embedded piezoelectric energy harvester at an angle of …