On numerical modeling of animal swimming and flight

HB Deng, YQ Xu, DD Chen, H Dai, J Wu… - Computational …, 2013 - Springer
Aquatic and aerial animals have developed their superior and complete mechanisms of
swimming and flight. These mechanisms bring excellent locomotion performances to natural …

Dynamic evolution of Strouhal number in flexible pipes coupling rotation

Y Wang, M Lou, W Liang, C Zhang, Y Wang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamic response evolution mechanism of the rotating and non-rotating pipe (RP-NRP)
system remains inadequately explored, and there is a lack of a precise Strouhal-Reynolds …

From flapping to heaving: A numerical study of wings in forward flight

A Gonzalo, G Arranz, M Moriche… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Direct Numerical Simulations of the flow around a pair of flapping wings are
presented. The wings are flying in forward flight at a Reynolds number R e= 500, flapping at …

Numerical studies on locomotion perfromance of fish-like tail fins

G Li, ZHU Luodin, X Lu - Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, 2012 - Elsevier
Flapping plates of typical fishlike tail shapes are simulated to investigate their locomotion
performance using the multi-block Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and Immersed …

An optimal indirect control of underwater vehicle

E Paifelman, G Pepe, A Carcaterra - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers a new problem of control related to underwater vehicles. Due to the
presence of a free fluid surface and to the vortex shedding of the vehicle lifting surfaces, the …

均匀流下两柔性梁纵列行为变化研究

张磊, 陈华芳, 刘斌, 段健, 裴志勇 - 力学学报, 2024 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
随着水下仿生柔性航行器的蓬勃发展, 如何有效地开展集群组织, 提升效能成为研究热点之一,
特别是当柔性航行器编队遭遇外界环境变化时. 基于此, 开展流场作用下两个自推进柔性梁纵列 …

Effect of chordwise deformation on propulsive performance of flapping wings in forward flight

T Lin, W Xia, S Hu - The Aeronautical Journal, 2021 - cambridge.org
Lack of flexibility limits the performance enhancement of man-made flapping wing Micro Air
Vehicles (MAVs). Active chordwise deformation (bending) is introduced into the flapping …

Design and implementation of a swimming robot with pectoral fins only

FA Naser, MT Rashid - Robotica, 2022 - cambridge.org
The use of swimming robots has increased widely in recent years due to the need of using
them in situations where human intervention is difficult or not allowed. Exploring depths of …

Flapping states of an elastically anchored plate in a uniform flow with applications to energy harvesting by fluid-structure interaction

A Orchini, A Mazzino, J Guerrero, R Festa… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Linear stability analysis of an elastically anchored flat plate in a uniform flow is investigated
both analytically and numerically. The analytical formulation explicitly takes into account the …

Aerodynamic investigation and optimization of airfoil geometry and oscillation parameters in the plunging motion using RSM

MH Javareshkian, A Baghri, A Esmaeli… - Modares Mechanical …, 2015 - mme.modares.ac.ir
In this research, the plunging motion of an airfoil is simulated by a numerical method based
on finite volume method and various Reynolds numbers; however, the effect of thickness …