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Springer (part of Springer Nature), Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1-4(24), p. 169-173

DOI: 10.1007/s00162-009-0171-0

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Numerical simulations of falling leaves using a pseudo-spectral method with volume penalization

Journal article published in 2009 by Dmitry Kolomenskiy ORCID, Kai Schneider ORCID
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Abstract

The dynamics of falling leaves is studied by means of numerical simulations. The two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, coupled with the equations governing solid body dynamics, are solved using a Fourier pseudo-spectral method with volume penalization to impose no-slip boundary conditions. Comparison with other numerical methods is made. Simulations performed for different values of the Reynolds number show that its decrease stabilizes the free fall motion.