Enhancement of propulsive performance of flapping foil by fish-like motion pattern

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2017.07.016MaRDI QIDQ1648460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hamid R. Karbasian, Javad Abolfazli Esfahani

Publication date 27 June 2018

Published in Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.07.016

zbMATH Keywords

biomimetic propulsioncomputational fluid dynamicsfish-like swimmingflapping foil

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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• Wake topology and hydrodynamic performance of low-aspect-ratio flapping foils
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• Optimization of semi-active hydrofoil propulsion performance based on CFD Taguchi method and neural network
• Hydrodynamic behavior and routing problem of an undulated biomimetic beam in flow environments

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