Journal article
From video to computation of biological fluid–structure interaction problems
Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, Vol.30(1-2), pp.41-66
04/2016
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-015-0358-5
Abstract
This work deals with the techniques necessary to obtain a purely Eulerian procedure to conduct CFD simulations of biological systems with moving boundary flow phenomena. Eulerian approaches obviate difficulties associated with mesh generation to describe or fit flow meshes to body surfaces. The challenges associated with constructing embedded boundary information, body motions and applying boundary conditions on the moving bodies for flow computation are addressed in the work. The overall approach is applied to the study of a fluid–structure interaction problem, i.e., the hydrodynamics of swimming of an American eel, where the motion of the eel is derived from video imaging. It is shown that some first-blush approaches do not work, and therefore, careful consideration of appropriate techniques to connect moving images to flow simulations is necessary and forms the main contribution of the paper. A combination of level set-based active contour segmentation with optical flow and image morphing is shown to enable the image-to-computation process.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From video to computation of biological fluid–structure interaction problems
- Creators
- Seth I DillardJames H. J BuchholzH. S Udaykumar
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, Vol.30(1-2), pp.41-66
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00162-015-0358-5
- ISSN
- 0935-4964
- eISSN
- 1432-2250
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2016
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Injury Prevention Research Center; Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984064236602771
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