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Drag Reduction, from Bending to Pruning

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arxiv 1305.4995 v2 pith:BYVZYKDA submitted 2013-05-22 physics.bio-ph physics.flu-dyn

Drag Reduction, from Bending to Pruning

classification physics.bio-ph physics.flu-dyn
keywords mechanismsbendingdragefficientloadsplantspruningreduce
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Most plants and benthic organisms have evolved efficient reconfiguration mechanisms to resist flow-induced loads. These mechanisms can be divided into bending, in which plants reduce their sail area through elastic deformation, and pruning, in which the loads are decreased through partial breakage of the structure. In this work, we show by using idealized models that these two mechanisms or, in fact, any combination of the two, are equally efficient to reduce the drag experienced by terrestrial and aquatic vegetation.

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