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Themed Article on Fluid-Structure Interactions with Applications to Biology
Guest editors: Wei-Xi Huang, Silas Alben
Abstract: Fluid–structure interactions (FSI) are encountered by almost all animals and plants that live in fluid environments, e.g. flying insects/birds, swimming fish, blood cells, seeds, leaves, and trees. The interactions of living species with fluids are commonplace in our daily life and have attracted wide attention for a long time. However, they are still puzzling today for their intrinsic complexities, which bring major challenges in experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies. In such systems, the biological structures can be deformed under the forces exerted by the surrounding fluid. On the other hand, the deformable structures act on the fluid, forcing it to move with the moving boundary. Together, the interaction between the fluid and the biological structures can allow for efficient biological locomotion, which arose gradually during a long evolutionary history. Therefore, new insights into FSI mechanisms may help us not only to resolve enduring puzzles, but also to improve our designs in biological and biomechanical applications.
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