Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 59, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 543-555 (13 pages) The effective forces that govern the vertical oscillations of an elastic structure in a horizontally flowing ...

A body moving through a fluid experiences a drag force, which is usually divided into two components: frictional drag, and pressure drag. Frictional drag comes from friction between the fluid and the ...

An important observation is that fluid flow is always irreversible. It is irreversible because fluids have viscosity, and whenever velocity gradients appear in the flow there will be friction and ...

Figure 1: Numerical simulations of induced vertical drift of initially horizontal layers in the presence of fluid viscosity. We determined the dependence of Darwin’s mechanism on body shape by ...