Hydrodynamics of a biologically inspired tandem flapping foil configuration

By Imran Akhtar, Rajat Mittal, George V. Lauder, E. Drucker. 2007

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Robotic Models for Studying Undulatory Locomotion in Fishes (2011, methodology): “These data correspond very well to the computational results of Akhtar et al. (2007), which showed peak thrust enhancement at a phase FIGURE 11 Robotic model of fish fin hydrodynamic interactions.”
Computational analysis of vortex dynamics and performance enhancement due to body–fin and fin–fin interactions in fish-like locomotion (2017, background): “Numerical simulations suggested that the downstream foil could produce three times more thrust when the phase oﬀset is 48 ◦ and the distance between the two plates was about a chord length (Akhtar et al. (2007)).”
Numerical Investigation of Energy Extraction in a Tandem Flapping Wing Configuration (2012, methodology): “Both experimental and numerical results seem to show mixed results when the force coefficients of tandem wings are compared with a single wing (tandem outperforms single [21,24], single outperforms tandem [5,22]).”
Fish biorobotics: kinematics and hydrodynamics of self-propulsion (2007, background): “This is precisely the mechanism identified by Akhtar et al. in their computational study for thrust enhancement when the wake of the upstream foil encounters the trailing foil and causes increased leading edge suction (Akhtar et al., 2007).”
Fish locomotion: kinematics and hydrodynamics of flexible foil-like fins (2007, background): “Computational fluid dynamic analysis of two foils in series using the pattern of motion from the sunfish dorsal fin and tail (Akhtar et al. 2007), showed that indeed considerable increases in thrust are realized by the sunfish tail as a direct result of the dorsal fin wake initiating the formation o”