Bulletin of the American Physical Society
71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 63, Number 13
Sunday–Tuesday, November 18–20, 2018; Atlanta, Georgia
Session F20: Biological Fluid Dynamics: General II
8:00 AM–10:10 AM,
Monday, November 19, 2018
Georgia World Congress Center
Room: B308
Chair: Luciano Castillo, Purdue University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.DFD.F20.2
Abstract: F20.00002 : Numerical Simulations of Pulsating Soft Corals *
8:13 AM–8:26 AM
Presenter:
Shilpa Khatri
(University of California, Merced)
Authors:
Shilpa Khatri
(University of California, Merced)
Matea Alvarado
(University of California, Merced)
Diane Leal Delgado
(University of California, Merced)
Laura A Miller
(Univ of NC - Chapel Hill)
Soft corals of the family Xeniidae have a pulsating motion, a behavior not observed in many other sessile organisms. We are studying how this behavior may give these corals a competitive advantage. We will present computational simulations of the pulsations of the coral. Direct numerical simulations of the pulsating corals and the resulting fluid flow by solving the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the immersed boundary method will be discussed. We will explore how the mixing created by the corals is modified as we vary parameters of the fluid flow and the pulsating motion.
*NSF PHY grant #1505061
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.DFD.F20.2
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