Adaptive compliant structures for flow regulation
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 147958985
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rspa.2017.0334
- Title of journal
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Article number
- 20170334
- First page
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- Volume
- 473
- Issue
- 2204
- ISSN
- 1364-5021
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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A - Advanced Composites Collaboration for Innovation & Science ACCIS
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Elastic nonlinearities are usually seen as structural failure. Reversing this philosophy, we use nonlinearities for additional functionality: fluid flow control through passive shape adaptation for improved aerodynamic and mass efficiency. For the first time in the literature, we uncover a taxonomy of nonlinear behaviours for shape adaptation, covering the underlying physics from first principles through to wind tunnel testing. This EPSRC-funded work (EP/M013170/1) led to the award of an EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship (Arena), a collaboration with NASA and Texas A&M (doi:10.1115/SMASIS2018-8079), and was Simulia’s ‘Project of the Year 2017 - Brand Jury Prize’ winner (https://youtu.be/Ljy1Tu9hVEw).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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