Computational bluff body fluid dynamics and aeroelasticity

Computational approaches are now making a substantial contribution to investigations in bluff body fluid mechanics, which were previously the sole domain of experimentalists. Stability analysis, direct numerical simulation and, increasingly, large eddy simulation, is being used to study fundamental aspects of the phenomena involved. Accelerating reference frame solution techniques have recently been developed and employed in the study of bluff body aeroelasticity: these are described and applied to the study of flows past slender cylinders with prescribed motion, and with aeroelastic fluid-structure interaction.