Abstract
Interactions between fluids and elastic solids are ubiquitous in applications ranging from aeronautical and civil engineering to physiological flows. Here we study the pulsatile flow through a two-dimensional Starling resistor as a simple model for unsteady flow in elastic vessels. We numerically solve the equations governing the flow and the large-displacement elasticity and show that the system responds as a forced harmonic oscillator with nonconventional damping. We derive an analytical prediction for the amplitude of the oscillatory wall deformation, and thus the conditions under which resonances occur or vanish.
- Received 25 June 2020
- Accepted 17 November 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.254501
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