简介:Fishareabletomakegooduseofvortices.Inacomplexflowfield,manyfishcontinuetomaintainbothefficientcruisingandmaneuverability.Traditionalman-madepropulsionsystemsperformpoorlyincomplexflowfields.Withfish-likepropulsionsystems,itisimportanttopaymoreattentiontocomplexflowfields.Inthispaper,theinfluenceofvorticesonthehydrodynamicperformanceof2-Dflapping-foilswasinvestigated.Theflapping-foilheavedandpitchedundertheinfluenceofinflowvorticesgeneratedbyanoscillatingD-sectioncylinder.Anumericalsimulationwasrunbasedthefinitevolumemethod,usingthecomputationalfluiddynamics(CFD)softwareFLUENTwithReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)equationsapplied.Inaddition,dynamicmeshtechnologyandpostprocessingsystemswerealsofullyused.Thecalculationsshowedfourmodesofinteraction.Thehydrodynamicperformanceofflapping-foilswasanalyzedandtheresultscomparedwithexperimentaldata.Thisvalidatedthenumericalsimulation,confirmingthatflapping-foilscanincreaseefficiencybyabsorbingenergyfrominflowvortices.
简介:Inordertostudycavitationcharacteristicsofa2-Dhydrofoil,themethodthatcombinesnonlinearcavitationmodelandmixed-iterationisusedtopredictandanalyzethecavitationperformanceofhydrofoils.ThecavitationelementsarenonlinearlydisposedbasedontheGreenformulaandperturbationpotentialpanelmethod.Atthesametime,themethodthatcombinescavityshapeforfixedcavitylength(CSCL)iterationandcavityshapeforfixedcavitationnumber(CSCN)iterationisusedtoworkoutthethicknessandlengthofhydrofoilcavitations.Throughanalysisofcalculationresults,itcanbeconcludedthatthejumpofpressureandvelocitypotentiallyexistbetweencavitationendareaandnon-cavitationsareaonsuctionsurfacewhencavitationoccursonhydrofoil.Incertainanglesofattack,thecavitationnumberhasanegativeimpactonthelengthofcavitations.Andunderthesameangleofattackandcavitationnumber,thebiggerthethicknessofthehydrofoil,theshorterthecavitationslength.