tion with laboratory experiment, can provide valuable insight into complex biological systems that involve the interaction of an elastic structure with a viscous, incompressible fluid. This biological fluid-dynamics setting presents several more challenges than those traditionally faced in computational fluid dynamics—specifically, dynamic flow situations dominate, and capturing time-dependent ...

This paper presents an exact analytical model for optimizing stability of thin-walled, composite, functionally graded pipes conveying fluid. The critical flow velocity at which divergence occurs is maximized for a specified total structural mass in order to ensure the economic feasibility of the attained optimum designs. The composition of the material of construction is optimized by defining t...