Review of experimental work in biomimetic foils
By Michael S. Triantafyllou, Alexandra H. Techet, Franz S. Hover. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2004
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Significant progress has been made in understanding some of the basic mechanisms of force production and flow manipulation in oscillating foils for underwater use. Biomimetic observations, however, show that there is a lot more to be learned, since many of the functions and details of fish fins remain unexplored. This review focuses primarily on experimental studies on some of the, at least partially understood, mechanisms, which include 1) the formation of streets of vortices around and behind two- and three-dimensional propulsive oscillating foils; 2) the formation of vortical structures around and behind two- and three-dimensional foils used for maneuvering, hovering, or fast-starting; 3) the formation of leading-edge vortices in flapping foils, under steady flapping or transient conditions; 4) the interaction of foils with oncoming, externally generated vorticity; multiple foils, or foils operating near a body or wall.
Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Ocean Engineering
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- Flapping Wing Aerodynamics: Progress and Challenges (2008, unknown): “flapping wing and biomimetic foil propulsion [1–5].”
- Flapping flight for biomimetic robotic insects: part I-system modeling (2006, unknown): “Besides insect flight, dela y d stall also plays a very important role in fish swimming [33], [34] and helicopter flight [35].”
- Low-dimensional models and performance scaling of a highly deformable fish pectoral fin (2009, unknown): “Some studies of pitching–rolling foils have used the total amplitude at 70 % span to characterize the wake width ( Triantafyllou, Techet & Hover 2004; Techet et al. 2005).”
- Maneuverability - general issues (2004, background): “Therefore, it is no accident that the paper by Triantafyllou [121] examines the engineering-hydrodynamic import of interactions between control surfaces and their flow environments.”
- How motion trajectory affects energy extraction performance of a biomimic energy generator with an oscillating foil (2012, background): “In nature, many animals (aquatic animals, insects and birds) exploit energy directly from the fluid around them by controlling and maneuvering their bodies’ locomotion via oscillation mechanism either actively and/or passively [4].”
- Passive and Active Flow Control by Swimming Fishes and Mammals (2006, background): “…a topic far too diverse to cover in a meaningful manner here; a number of recent works provide overviews of much relevant biological and hydrodynamic literature (Bandyopadhyay 2004; Fish 2004; Lauder 2005; Lauder & Drucker 2004; Triantafyllou et al. 2000, 2004; Webb 1998; Wilga & Lauder 2004a).”
- Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Propulsion (2005, background): “, 2004; Mittal, 2004), and the results of experiments by fluid engineers on heaving and pitching foils (Triantafyllou et al., 1993; Gopalkrishnan et al., 1994; Anderson et al., 1998; Hover et al., 1998, 2004; Read et al., 2003; Triantafyllou et al., 2004).”
- Fish locomotion: kinematics and hydrodynamics of flexible foil-like fins (2007, methodology): “Another approach, and one that allows for much more control over movement pattern and for greater exploration of the parameter space of fin phase, frequency, and amplitude is to use robotic models of fish fins (Kato 1998, 2000; Lauder et al. 2007; Tangorra et al. in press; Triantafyllou and Triantaf”