Francis Biolley

TL;DR: A class of low-order models for vortex-induced vibrations is analyzed in this article, where a van der Pol equation is used to describe the near wake dynamics describing the fluctuating nature of vortex shedding and several types of linear coupling terms modelling the fluid-structure interaction are considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the vortex-induced vibrations of a very slender cable subjected to a stationary uniform cross-flow, using a travelling wave approach, and developed a phenomenological model of the near wake based on van der Pol oscillators.

TL;DR: Facchinetti et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a model for the near wake dynamics of slender bluff bodies in cross-flow, which is based on a continuous distribution of van der Pol oscillators arranged along the spanwise extent of the structure and interacting by diffusion.

TL;DR: In this article, several models are proposed to predict the fatigue life of a pipe exposed to a current, ranging from simple modal calculations to fully coupled analysis of the fluid-structure interaction and resolution of the Navier-Stokes equations.