Obstacles and swimming fish in flow create a wake with an alternating left/right vortex pattern known as a Kármán vortex street and reverse Kármán vortex street, respectively. An energy-efficient fish behavior resembling slaloming through the vortex street is called Kármán gaiting. This paper describes the use of a bioinspired array of pressure sensors on a Joukowski foil to estimate and contro...

An experimental study of a turbulent von Kármán flow in a cylinder is presented. The mean flow is stationary up to a Reynolds number Re=10(4) where a bifurcation takes place. The new regime breaks some symmetries of the problem and becomes time dependent because of equatorial vortices moving with a precession movement. In the exact counterrotating case, a bistable regime appears and spontaneous...

In this paper, a new viscoelastic size-depended model developed based on a modified couple stress theory and the for nonlinear viscoelastic material in order to vibration analysis of a viscoelastic nanoplate. The material of the nanoplate is assumed to obey the Leaderman nonlinear constitutive relation and the von Kármán plate theory is employed to model the system. The viscous parts of the clas...

Gábor Halász, Balázs Gyüre, Imre M. Jánosi, K. Gábor Szabó, and Tamás Tél von Kármán Laboratory for Environmental Flows, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary Department of Fluid Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology, H-1111, Bertalan L. u. 4–6, Budapest, Hungary and Previous address: HAS Research Group for Theoretical Physics, H-1518, P.O. Box 32, Budapest, Hung...

We discuss the application of stochastic intermittency fields to describe and analyse statistical properties time series generalised turbulence intensity in an anisotropic inhomogeneous turbulent flow provide a parsimonious description one-, two-, three-point statistics. In particular, we show that correlations can be predicted from observed two-point Our analysis is motivated by stylised featu...

We study a dynamic contact problem for a thermoelastic von Kármán plate vibrating against a rigid obstacle. Dynamics is described by a hyperbolic variational inequality for deflections. The plate is subjected to a perpendicular force and to a heat source. The parabolic equation for a thermal strain resultant contains the time derivative of the deflection. We formulate a weak solution of the sys...