Flow Simulation

Here we present the simulation results of flows around a number of rigid and variable shape bodies. The different cases of Potential, Stokesian, and Navier-Stokes flow are considered.

The linear Potential and Stokes flows are solved using a simple panel method, whereas the Navier-Stokes flow is solved using the Immersed Boundary Method.

References

MB99

Richard Mason and Joel Burdick. Propulsion and control of deformable bodies in an ideal fluid. In Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on, volume 1, 773–780. IEEE, 1999.

SW89

Alfred Shapere and Frank Wilczek. Geometry of self-propulsion at low reynolds number. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 198:557–585, 1989.