Abstract Creatures with longer bodies in nature like snakes and eels moving water commonly generate a large swaying of their or tails, the purpose producing significant frictions collisions between body fluid to provide power consecutive forward force. This can be idealized by considering oscillations soft beam immersed when waves vibration travel down at constant speed. The present study emplo...

We performed a whole-body mapping study of the effect of unilateral muscle vibration, eliciting spindle Ia firing, on the control of standing and walking in humans. During quiet stance, vibration applied to various muscles of the trunk-neck system and of the lower limb elicited a significant tilt in whole body postural orientation. The direction of vibration-induced postural tilt was consistent...

A comprehensive review of modelling techniques for the flow-induced vibration (FIV) bluff bodies is presented. This phenomenology involves bidirectional fluid–structure interaction (FSI) coupled with non-linear dynamics. In addition to experimental investigations this phenomenon in wind tunnels and water channels, a number methodologies have become important study various aspects FIV response b...

The induced flow effect is the rotary motion generated in the fluid flow due to the temperature gradient. The phenomenon of thermophoresis is the movement of particles from the warmer side of the fluid to the cooler side. Laser is a very suitable device for creating a temperature gradient due to its unique features such as high power density, harmonic waves, single wavelength and very low diver...

This paper proposes a method of controlling the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) wind turbine towers by adding continuous trapezoidal straight spoiler plates (TS) onto their outer surface: fluid–solid coupling model was constructed to simulate processes Karman vortex generation and shedding on different surfaces an original tower (O–tower) with TS (TS–tower) assumed actual Re, while VIV frequenci...

The University of Toledo University Transportation Center (UT-UTC) has identified hybrid vehicles as one of the three areas of the research. The activities proposed in this research proposal are directed towards the noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) solutions for hybrid vehicles. The soaring fuel prices require imperious steps in developing alternate propulsion technologies. The design and ...

The vibration of fungal cultures was evaluated to determine its potential effect on the dispersal of airborne fungal microorganisms suspected of being pathogens. An artificial vibration system, which simulates the actual environmental vibration of fungal structures, was designed and constructed for this purpose. Experiments featured the use of low-frequency vibrations similar to those induced b...