Dynamic performance and wake structure of flapping plates with different shapes

The dynamic performance and wake structure of flapping plates with different shapes were studied using multi-block lattice Boltzman and immersed boundary method.Two typical regimes relevant to thrust behavior are identified.One is nonlinear relation between the thrust and the area moment of plate for lower area moment region and the other is linear relation for larger area moment region.The tendency of the power variation with the area moment is reasonably similar to the thrust behavior and the efficiency decreases gradually as the area moment increases.As the mechanism of the dynamic properties is associated with the evolution of vortical structures around the plate,the formation and evolution of vortical structures are investigated and the effects of the plate shape,plate area,Strouhal number and Reynolds number on the vortical structures are analyzed.The results obtained in this study provide physical insight into the understanding of the mechanisms relevant to flapping locomotion.

An improved model of damage depth of shock-melted metal in microspall under triangular wave loading

Damage depth is an important dynamic parameter for describing the degree of material damage and is also a key fundamental issue in the field of impact compression technology.The present work is dedicated to the damage depth of shock-melted metal in microspall under triangular wave loading,and an improved model of damage depth considering the material's compressibility and relative movement is proposed.The damage depth obtained from the proposed model is in good agreement with the laser-driven shock loading experiment.Compared with the previous model,the proposed model can predict the damage depth of shock-melted metal in microspall more accurately.Furthermore,two-groups of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH)simulations are carried out to investigate the effects of peak stress and decay length of the incident triangular wave on the damage depth,respectively.As the decay length increases,the damage depth increases linearly.As the peak stress increases,the damage depth increases nonlinearly,and the increase in damage depth gradually slows down.The results of the SPH simulations adequately reproduce the results of the proposed model in terms of the damage depth.Finally,it is found that the threshold stress criterion can reflect the macroscopic characteristics of microspall of melted metal.

Large Eddy Simulation of Stratified Turbulent Channel Flow with a Dynamic Subgrid Scale Model

In this paper, large eddy simulation coupled with a dynamic subgrid scale (SGS) model is used to study turbulent channel flows with heat transfer. Some fundamental flow behaviors are discussed. Based on our calculated results, the dynamic SGS model can reasonably predict some main characteristics of stratified turbulent channel flows. Our results are also in good agreement with theoretical analyses and previous calculated results.

A Compact Eulerian Interface-Capturing Algorithm for Compressible Multimaterial Elastic-Plastic Flows with Mie-Gr uneisen Equation of State

This paper presents an Eulerian diffuse-interface method using a high-order compact difference scheme for simulating elastic-plastic flows with the Mie–Gruneisen(MG)equation of state(EoS).For simulations of multimaterial problems,numerical errors were generated in the material discontinuities owing to inconsistent treatment of the convective terms.Based on the normal-stress-based mechanical equilibrium assumption for elastic-plastic solids,we introduce an improved form of the consistent localized artificial diffusivity(LAD)method to ensure an oscillation-free interface for velocity and normal stress.The proposed algorithm uses a hyperelastic model.A mixture type of the model system was formed by combining the conservation equations for the basic conserved variables,an equation of a unified deviatoric tensor describing solid deformation,and an additional set of equations for solving the material quantities in the MG EoS.Several one-and two-dimensional problems with various discontinuities,including the elastic-plastic Richtmyer–Meshkov instability,were considered for testing the proposed method.

Direct Numerical Simulation of Vertical Rotating Turbulent Open-Channel Flow with Heat Transfer

Direct numerical simulation of vertical rotating open-channel flow with heat transfer has been carried out for the rotation number Nτfrom 0 to 0.1,the Prandtl number 1,and the Reynolds number 180 based on the friction velocity of non-rotating flow and the height of the channel.The ob jective of this study is to reveal the effect of rotation on the characteristics of turbulent flow and heat transfer,in particular near the free surface and the wall of the open-channel.Statistical quantities,e.g.,the mean velocity,temperature and their fluctuations,turbulent heat fluxes,and turbulence structures,are analyzed.The depth of surface-influenced layer decreases with the increase of the rotation rate.In the free surface-influenced layer,the turbulence and thermal statistics are suppressed due to the effect of rotation.In the wall-influenced region,two typical rotation regimes are identified.In the weak rotation regime with 0<Nτ<0.06 approximately,the turbulence and thermal statistics correlated with the spanwise velocity fluctuation are enhanced since the shear rate of spanwise mean flow induced by Coriolis force increases;however,the other statistics are suppressed.In the strong rotation regime with Nτ>0.06,the turbulence and thermal statistics are suppressed significantly because the Coriolis force effect plays a dominant role in the rotating flow.To elucidate the effect of rotation on turbulent flow and heat transfer,the budget terms in the transport equations of Reynolds stresses and turbulent heat fluxes are investigated.Remarkable change of the direction of streak structures based on the velocity and temperature fluctuations is discussed.