Drag Reduction through Bionic Approaches

Dear Colleagues,

Energy-saving technology plays a vital role in improving the natural environment, building a green, low-carbon and sustainable economic system, and realizing the goal of “Peak Carbon Dioxide Emission and Carbon Neutrality”. As one of the practicable methods to pursue this goal, drag reduction has attracted significant attention, and nature-inspired drag reduction surfaces have achieved great progress. Innovation inspiration can be continuously provided via mimicking the special structure and material of creatures found in nature.

This Special Issue aims to exhibit new research achievements, findings and ideas in drag reduction via bio-inspired approaches and technologies. These include bionic approaches and technologies, such as the bionic design of micro-nano structures, the fabrication of bionic surfaces, the numerical analysis of drag reduction characteristics, and other new advances in theoretical, experimental, and bionic design focusing on drag reduction.

This Special Issue will focus on recent progress in multi-disciplinary biomimetic technologies that have practical potential, such as bio-inspired drag reduction films, turbulators, large-area preparation and flow field analysis based on machine learning.  Practical application methods and cases of bionic drag reduction may also be submitted.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Advances in bionic drag reduction;
• Design and fabrication of bionic surfaces;
• Bio-inspired micro- and nano-structures;
• Bio-inspired learning and control of fluid fields;
• Analysis of micro-nano flow fields;
• Applications of bio-inspired drag reduction

Prof. Dr. Huawei Chen
Prof. Dr. Limei Tian
Prof. Dr. Yang He
Dr. Dengke Chen
Guest Editors

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• bio-inspired surfaces
• bio-inspired fabrication
• drag reduction
• numerical simulation
• applications