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Duo Xu1,2, Matthias Heil3, Thomas Seeböck2

  • 1Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|January 8, 2021
PubMed
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This study models unsteady fluid flow in elastic vessels using a Starling resistor. The system behaves like a harmonic oscillator, revealing conditions for resonance in elastic flows.

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