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Hydrodynamic force induced by vortex-body interactions in orderly formations of flapping tandem flexible plates

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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0079818

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Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [12102365, 11872064, 11621202, 11972342]
  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M692881]
  3. Guangdong Key R&D Program of 2021 Ocean Six Industrial Project [2021-45, 041030150118]

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This study proposes a vorticity-based force expression to investigate the collective behaviors of two-dimensional tandem flapping plates. The research reveals that the wake vortices of the leader indirectly influence the hydrodynamic force on the rear plate by inducing an additional oncoming flow. The trajectory of the rear plate affects the generation of vorticity, with suppressed vorticity generation and weakened thrust effect when passing through vortex cores, and enhanced vorticity generation and thrust effect when slaloming between the vortices. The findings also highlight the ability of wake vortices to trap the rear plate into orderly configurations.
The mechanism behind stable aggregations of active swimmers is not fully understood. In particular, the in-depth quantitative explanations are notably lacking. To address this, a vorticity-based force expression is proposed to study the collective behaviors of two two-dimensional tandem flapping plates. The hydrodynamic force is directly related to the generation of vorticity on the plate and viscous forces resulting from its subsequent evolution. For the first time, the physical process by which the interactions between the rear plate and the wake vortices of the leader affects the hydrodynamic force is quantitatively elucidated and not based on simplified theory. The wake vortices of the leader influence the hydrodynamic force on the rear plate indirectly by inducing an additional oncoming flow. The flow affects the generation of vorticity, which mainly occurs on the head of the rear plate. The results show that, if the trajectory of the rear plate passes through the vortex cores, vorticity generation on the rear plate is suppressed and the thrust effect is weakened. If the rear plate slaloms between the vortices, the vorticity generation and the thrust effect are enhanced. We also found that the wake vortices of the leader has a certain ability to trap the rear plate into orderly configurations-no matter the rear plate has a dissimilar flapping amplitude or is applied an external horizontal loading-by adjusting the equilibrium position of the rear plate in it. The findings may shed some light on the understanding of collective behaviors in swimming animals.& nbsp;Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

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