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Fluids, Volume 6, Issue 2

February 2021 - 46 articles

Cover Story: On the journey up the oviducts, only a few excellent swimmers among hundreds of millions of sperms will reach the eggs. This journey is affected by many factors, some of which include sperm quality, sperm density, fluid rheology, and chemotaxis. In addition, the sperm swimming through different body tracks and fluids involves a complex sperm flagellar, complex fluid environment, and multi-sperm and sperm wall interactions. This paper describes a computational study on sperm swimming from an engineering perspective, with a focus on both simplified theoretical methods and fluid–structure interaction methods. Several open issues in this field are highlighted. View this paper.
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Articles (46)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,965 Views
15 Pages

23 February 2021

In this study, a numerical modelling of thermal radiation and turbulent thermogravitational convection in a large-scale chamber containing a thermally-generating element is conducted. The lower border of the cabinet is maintained under adiabatic cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,386 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Patterned Micro-Structure on the Apparent Contact Angle and Three-Dimensional Contact Line

  • Patrick Foltyn,
  • Ferdinand Restle,
  • Markus Wissmann,
  • Stefan Hengsbach and
  • Bernhard Weigand

23 February 2021

The measurement of the apparent contact angle on structured surfaces is much more difficult to obtain than on smooth surfaces because the pinning of liquid to the roughness has a tremendous influence on the three phase contact line. The results prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,242 Views
14 Pages

Modeling Immiscible Fluid Displacement in a Porous Medium Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

  • Magzhan Atykhan,
  • Bagdagul Kabdenova (Dauyeshova),
  • Ernesto Monaco and
  • Luis R. Rojas-Solórzano

22 February 2021

The numerical investigation of the interpenetrating flow dynamics of a gas injected into a homogeneous porous media saturated with liquid is presented. The analysis is undertaken as a function of the inlet velocity, liquid–gas viscosity ratio (D) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,219 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Behaviours of a Filament in a Viscoelastic Uniform Flow

  • Jingtao Ma,
  • Fang-Bao Tian,
  • John Young and
  • Joseph C. S. Lai

22 February 2021

The dynamic behaviours of a filament in a viscoelastic uniform flow were investigated by an immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method. The effects of the Reynolds numbers (Re, ranging from 10 to 200) and the Weissenberg number (Wi, ranging from 0 to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,413 Views
17 Pages

A Computational Model for Tail Undulation and Fluid Transport in the Giant Larvacean

  • Alexander P. Hoover,
  • Joost Daniels,
  • Janna C. Nawroth and
  • Kakani Katija

20 February 2021

Flexible propulsors are ubiquitous in aquatic and flying organisms and are of great interest for bioinspired engineering. However, many animal models, especially those found in the deep sea, remain inaccessible to direct observation in the laboratory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,973 Views
36 Pages

16 February 2021

The unsteady Ekman problem involves finding the response of the near-surface currents to wind stress forcing under linear dynamics. Its solution can be conveniently framed in the frequency domain in terms of a quantity that is known as the transfer f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,673 Views
11 Pages

16 February 2021

When using point measurement for environmental or sediment laden flows, there is well-recognised risk for not having aligned measurements that causes misinterpretation of the measured velocity data. In reality, these kinds of mismeasurement mainly ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,920 Views
15 Pages

Time-Periodic Cooling of Rayleigh–Bénard Convection

  • Lyes Nasseri,
  • Nabil Himrane,
  • Djamel Eddine Ameziani,
  • Abderrahmane Bourada and
  • Rachid Bennacer

16 February 2021

The problem of Rayleigh–Bénard’s natural convection subjected to a temporally periodic cooling condition is solved numerically by the Lattice Boltzmann method with multiple relaxation time (LBM-MRT). The study finds its interest in the field of therm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,357 Views
16 Pages

Gas–Liquid Mass Transfer around a Rising Bubble: Combined Effect of Rheology and Surfactant

  • Gaelle Lebrun,
  • Feishi Xu,
  • Claude Le Men,
  • Gilles Hébrard and
  • Nicolas Dietrich

15 February 2021

The influence of viscosity and surface tension on oxygen transfer was investigated using planar laser-induced fluorescence with inhibition (PLIF-I). The surface tension and the viscosity were modified using Triton X-100 and polyacrylamide, respective...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,974 Views
14 Pages

13 February 2021

A short review of wavelet-based adaptive methods for modeling and simulation of incompressible turbulent flows is presented. Wavelet-based computational modeling approaches of different fidelities are recast into an integrated hierarchical adaptive e...

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