Vortex-induced vibrations: a soft coral feeding strategy?
Autor: | Stephane Etienne, Frédérick P. Gosselin, Mouad Boudina |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Mechanical Engineering Flow (psychology) Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology Mechanics Physics - Fluid Dynamics Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Finite element method Swell 010305 fluids & plasmas Cylinder (engine) law.invention Plume Vortex Vibration Physics::Fluid Dynamics 020303 mechanical engineering & transports 0203 mechanical engineering Flow velocity Mechanics of Materials law 0103 physical sciences |
Popis: | Soft corals, such as the bipinnate sea plume Antillogorgia bipinnata, are colony building animals that feed by catching food particles brought by currents. Because of their flexible skeleton, they bend and sway back and forth with the wave swell. In addition to this low-frequency sway of the whole colony, branches of A. bipinnata vibrate at high frequency with small amplitude and transverse to the flow as the wave flow speed peaks. In this paper, we investigate the origin of these yet unexplained vibrations and consider their effect on soft corals. Estimation of dynamical variables along with finite element implementation of the wake-oscillator model favour vortex-induced vibrations (VIVs) as the most probable origin of the observed rapid dynamics. To assess the impact of the dynamics on filter feeding, we simulated particles advected by the flow around a circular cylinder and calculated the capture rate with an in-house monolithic fluid-structure interaction (FSI) finite element solver and Python code. We observe that vibrating cylinders can capture up to 40% more particles than fixed ones at frequency lock-in. Therefore, VIVs plausibly offer soft corals a better food capture. 20 pages |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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