Effect of wavelength of fish-like undulation of a hydrofoil in a free-stream flow
 作者： Thekkethil Namshad,  Mukul Shrivastava,  Amit Agrawal,  Atul Sharma 作者单位： 1Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 刊名： Sādhanā, 2017, Vol.42 (4), pp.585-595 来源数据库： Springer Nature Journal DOI： 10.1007/s12046-017-0619-7 关键词： Fish-like locomotion;  Pitching;  Undulation;  Wavelength; 英文摘要： Fish-like undulating body was proposed as an efficient propulsion system, and various mechanisms of thrust generation in this type of propulsion are found in the literature—separately for undulating and pitching fishes/foil. The present work proposes a unified study for undulating and pitching foil, by varying wavelength $$\lambda$$ (from 0.8 to 8.0) of a wave travelling backwards over the NACA0012 hydrofoil in a free-stream flow; the larger wavelength is shown to lead to the transition from the undulating motion to pitching motion. The effect of wavelength of undulation is studied numerically at a Reynolds number $$Re=4000$$ , maximum amplitude of undulation $$A_{max}=0.1$$ and non-dimensional frequency of undulation $$St=0.4$$ , using level-set immersed-boundary-method based in-house... 2D code. The Navier–Stokes equation governing the fluid flow is solved using a fully implicit finite-volume method, while level-set equation governing the movement of the hydrofoil is solved using an explicit finite-difference method. It is presented here that the thrust generation mechanism for the low wavelength case undulating $$(\lambda =0.8)$$ foil is different from the mechanism for the high wavelength pitching foil. With increasing wavelength, mean thrust coefficient of the undulating foil increases and asymptotes to value for the pure pitching foil. Furthermore, the ratio of maximum thrust coefficient to maximum lateral force coefficient is found to be larger for the smaller wavelength undulating foil as compared with the larger wavelength pitching foil. 原始语种摘要： Fish-like undulating body was proposed as an efficient propulsion system, and various mechanisms of thrust generation in this type of propulsion are found in the literature—separately for undulating and pitching fishes/foil. The present work proposes a unified study for undulating and pitching foil, by varying wavelength $$\lambda$$ (from 0.8 to 8.0) of a wave travelling backwards over the NACA0012 hydrofoil in a free-stream flow; the larger wavelength is shown to lead to the transition from the undulating motion to pitching motion. The effect of wavelength of undulation is studied numerically at a Reynolds number $$Re=4000$$ , maximum amplitude of undulation $$A_{max}=0.1$$ and non-dimensional frequency of undulation $$St=0.4$$ , using level-set immersed-boundary-method based in-house... 2D code. The Navier–Stokes equation governing the fluid flow is solved using a fully implicit finite-volume method, while level-set equation governing the movement of the hydrofoil is solved using an explicit finite-difference method. It is presented here that the thrust generation mechanism for the low wavelength case undulating $$(\lambda =0.8)$$ foil is different from the mechanism for the high wavelength pitching foil. With increasing wavelength, mean thrust coefficient of the undulating foil increases and asymptotes to value for the pure pitching foil. Furthermore, the ratio of maximum thrust coefficient to maximum lateral force coefficient is found to be larger for the smaller wavelength undulating foil as compared with the larger wavelength pitching foil.

• undulation　波动
• undulating　波状的
• hydrofoil　水翼
• locomotion　移动
• wavelength　波长
• pitching　俯仰
• coefficient　系数
• varying　变化的
• generation　世代
• propulsion　推进