Final Activity Report Summary - FLUBIO (Bio- and environmental fluid mechanics)
The 'Bio- and Environmental Fluid Mechanics' (FLUBIO) project had the aims of making progress towards the understanding of:
- environmental fluid dynamics;
- bio-fluid dynamics and bio-mimicry;
- fundamental fluid dynamics.
Ten people were hired over the four years of the project: four of them (A. Mendonca (P), J. Cherlet (B), A. C. Rummel (D) and T. van Oyen (B)) worked on problem of environmental fluid dynamics, focussing in particular on tidal meanders, tidal deltas, and sediment transport. Three of them (J. E. Guerrero (Venezuela), A. Dauptain (F) and J. Favier (F)) dealt with problems of bio-mimetics, simulating problems of flapping wings and beating cilia. The last three fellows (A. Guaus (F), D. Biau (F) and C. Pringle (UK)) worked on fundamental problems of stability and transition to turbulence.
The most significant results are briefly outlined below.
- Environmental fluid dynamics: enhanced understanding of the morphodynamics of tidal channels and ebb deltas via laboratory measurements; modelling of the grain sorting effects on the formation of tidal sand waves.
- Bio-fluid dynamics and bio-mimicry: simulations of two- and three-dimensional flapping wings (for birds) and beating cilia (for marine invertebrates). Modelling of the effect of covert feathers on the onset of dynamic stall in birds.
- Fundamental fluid dynamics: study of the onset of instability and transition to turbulence in channels and ducts via linear and nonlinear theories, possibly including the effect of the compliance of the walls.
- environmental fluid dynamics;
- bio-fluid dynamics and bio-mimicry;
- fundamental fluid dynamics.
Ten people were hired over the four years of the project: four of them (A. Mendonca (P), J. Cherlet (B), A. C. Rummel (D) and T. van Oyen (B)) worked on problem of environmental fluid dynamics, focussing in particular on tidal meanders, tidal deltas, and sediment transport. Three of them (J. E. Guerrero (Venezuela), A. Dauptain (F) and J. Favier (F)) dealt with problems of bio-mimetics, simulating problems of flapping wings and beating cilia. The last three fellows (A. Guaus (F), D. Biau (F) and C. Pringle (UK)) worked on fundamental problems of stability and transition to turbulence.
The most significant results are briefly outlined below.
- Environmental fluid dynamics: enhanced understanding of the morphodynamics of tidal channels and ebb deltas via laboratory measurements; modelling of the grain sorting effects on the formation of tidal sand waves.
- Bio-fluid dynamics and bio-mimicry: simulations of two- and three-dimensional flapping wings (for birds) and beating cilia (for marine invertebrates). Modelling of the effect of covert feathers on the onset of dynamic stall in birds.
- Fundamental fluid dynamics: study of the onset of instability and transition to turbulence in channels and ducts via linear and nonlinear theories, possibly including the effect of the compliance of the walls.