Propulsion of an active flapping foil in heading waves of deep water

DOI10.1016/j.enganabound.2017.08.014zbMath1403.76121MaRDI QIDQ1656254

Y. Aharonov

Publication date: 10 August 2018

Published in: Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2017.08.014

zbMATH Keywords

Stokes waves; propulsive efficiency; flapping foil; frequency difference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M15: Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

65N38: Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

76B10: Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing