76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 19, 2023 — November 21, 2023)

P0043: Dancing Larvae in Benthic Boundary Layer Flow

Authors
  • Daniel Gysbers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Gabriel Juarez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2023.GFM.P0043

Snapshots of vorticity heatmaps capture the complex, time-varying flow structures generated by simulated oscillatory flow over multiscale reef topography. Coral larvae pathlines from an agent-based model show the interaction of swimming larvae with these flow structures, causing them to dance and spin as they make their way to their new home on the benthic surface.

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