title: Fluid-body interactions: clashing, skimming, bouncing.
abstract: Solid-solid and solid-fluid impacts and bouncing are the concern here. A theoretical study is presented on fluid-body interaction in which the motion of the body and the fluid influence each other nonlinearly. There could also be many bodies involved. The clashing refers to solid-solid impacts arising from fluid-body interaction in a channel, while the skimming refers to another area where a thin body impacts obliquely upon a fluid surface. Bouncing usually then follows in both areas. The main new contribution concerns the influences of thickness and camber which lead to a different and more general form of clashing and hence bouncing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. frank@math.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Frank T
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Phillip L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D004548:Elasticity; D057446:Hydrodynamics; D055641:Mathematical Concepts; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009991:Oscillometry; D012212:Rheology