A Review for the Interaction of Fluid and Structure in Porous Tissues

This paper aims to motivate the quantitative study of biological porous tissues where fluids and structures are interacting. This will brings two fields into focus Poroelasticity (PE) and Fluid-Solid Interaction (FSI). Both fields were initiated few decades ago and have been growing but received little attention in funding and research. PE focuses on deformation of porous medium that is saturated with fluid and it lies in the intersection of elasticity, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and continuum mechanics while FSI lies in the intersection of fluid mechanics, solid mechanics and dynamics. The significance of this paper is the potential to lead to development of new smart materials based on biological concepts. Honey comb beams and structures were developed from nature and they are widely used today in many applications including aerospace. More studies on poroelastic behavior of biological tissues can lead to a break through in materials science.