摘要
The interaction between free fast-moving bodies(or particles)and the fluid surrounding them is studied,motivated by applications in different branches of industry,biomedicine,the environment and science such as flying droplets,ice growth,dust,impacts,food grains,sport,complexity and storms.New inviscid-based modelling and results on the behaviour of two interacting bodies inside a channel flow are described.This is followed by discussion of the more-bodies extension with a view to treating arrays of bodies in a rational manner.Significant dependences on initial conditions and on the comparative body masses and moments of inertia are found for the occurrence of body-body impacts as opposed to wall-body impacts and for the associated impact times.