Open AccessFluid–body interactions: clashing, skimming, bouncing
Author(s) -
F. T. Smith,
Philip K. Wilson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
philosophical transactions - royal society. mathematical, physical and engineering sciences/philosophical transactions - royal society. mathematical, physical and engineering sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074
H-Index - 169
eISSN - 1471-2962
pISSN - 1364-503X
DOI - 10.1098/rsta.2011.0092
Subject(s) - solid body , fluid motion , solid surface , mechanics , classical mechanics , physics , geology , chemical physics
Solid–solid and solid–fluid impacts and bouncing are the concern here. A theoretical study is presented on fluid–body interaction in which the motion of the body and the fluid influence each other nonlinearly. There could also be many bodies involved. The clashing refers to solid–solid impacts arising from fluid–body interaction in a channel, while the skimming refers to another area where a thin body impacts obliquely upon a fluid surface. Bouncing usually then follows in both areas. The main new contribution concerns the influences of thickness and camber which lead to a different and more general form of clashing and hence bouncing.