Call for Papers: Special Issue on 'Flow in collapsible tube or over compliant surface for biomedical applications' Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (CNM)

摘要

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering will publish a special issue on 'Flow in collapsible tube or over compliant surface for biomedical applications'. The Guest Editors for this issue will be Dr X. Y. Luo from the University of Glasgow, Department of Mathematics, and Dr C. Davies from the Cardiff University, School of Mathematics. There are many physiological examples of compliant tubes, which collapse when the intramural pressure difference falls below a critical value. These can be veins above the heart, arteries under a cuff, large airways in forced expiration, urethra during micturition, to mention just a few. More generally there are many biomechanical, biological examples of external and internal flows past highly compliant boundaries, for example, mechanics of snoring, pressure propagation in cerebrospinal fluid, hydrodynamics of dolphins and other animals, drag reduction, process engineering, structure-borne sound. The underlying physical phenomena, mathematical and numerical modelling have much in common with flow in collapsible tubes. This Special Issue aims to provide a glimpse of the rich research activities that are being undertaken in this area. Although most of the papers in this issue are on numerical modelling, some interesting and relevant experimental and analytical studies are also included.