This letter describes numerical simulation of the unsteady flow over a slow-flying bat by using the immersed boundary method based on the measured bat wing geometry and kinematics. The main vortical structures around the bat flapping wings are identified, illuminating the lift-generating role of the leading- edge vortices generated mainly in the downstroke. Furthermore, the lift decomposition indicates that the vortex lift has the dominant contribution to the time-averaged lift and the lift associated with the fluid acceleration has the relatively moderate effect.
In this paper,a "macroscopic-scale" numerical method for drop oscillation in AC electrowetting is presented.The method is based on a high-fidelity moving mesh interface tracking(MMIT) approach and a "microscopic model" for the moving contact line.The contact line model developed by Ren et al.[Phys Fluids,2010,22:102103] is used in the simulation.To determine the slip length in this model,we propose a calibration procedure using the experimental data of drop spreading in DC electrowetting.In the simulation,the frequency of input AC voltage varies in a certain range while the root-mean-square value remains fixed.The numerical simulation is validated against the experiment and it shows that the predicted resonance frequencies for different oscillation modes agree reasonably well with the experiment.The origins of discrepancy between simulation and experiment are analyzed in the paper.Further investigation is also conducted by including the contact angle hysteresis into the contact line model to account for the "stick-slip" behavior.A noticeable improvement on the prediction of resonance frequencies is achieved by using the hysteresis model.
The numerical simulation of flows past flapping foils at moderate Reynolds numbers presents two challenges to computational fluid dynamics: turbulent flows and moving boundaries. The direct forcing immersed boundary(IB) method has been developed to simulate laminar flows. However,its performance in simulating turbulent flows and transitional flows with moving boundaries has not been fully evaluated. In the present work,we use the IB method to simulate fully developed turbulent channel flows and transitional flows past a stationary/plunging SD7003 airfoil. To suppress the non-physical force oscillations in the plunging case,we use the smoothed discrete delta function for interpolation in the IB method. The results of the present work demonstrate that the IB method can be used to simulate turbulent flows and transitional flows with moving boundaries.
YANG XiaoLei,HE GuoWei & ZHANG Xing The State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics,Institute of Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
