Simulation of Flow About Flapping Airfoils Using Finite Element Incompressible Flow Solver

By Ravi Ramamurti, W. Sandberg. 2001

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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Numerical Investigation of Energy Extraction in a Tandem Flapping Wing Configuration (2012, background): “Pitch leading plunge by 90 deg has been shown to be most efficient for flapping wings from a number of sources [37,38].”
Computational modelling and analysis of the hydrodynamics of a highly deformable fish pectoral fin (2010, background): “(2010), vol. 645, pp. 345–373. c© Cambridge University Press 2010 doi:10.1017/S0022112009992941 345 Computational modelling and analysis of the hydrodynamics of a highly deformable fish pectoral fin”
Review of experimental work in biomimetic foils (2004, unknown): “[138], [74], [13], [51], [83], [114], [115], [94], [95], and experimentally [109], [17], [68], [6], [98].”
Learning Mesh-Based Simulation with Graph Networks (2020, methodology): “Mesh-based finite element simulations underpin popular methods in structural mechanics [27, 43], aerodynamics [12, 30], electromagnetics [28], geophysics [31, 35], and acoustics [23].”
Flapping Wing Aerodynamics: Progress and Challenges (2008, methodology): “Ramamurti and Sandberg [32] and Guglielmini and Blondeaux [33] studied the low-Reynolds number behavior by means of Navier–Stokes computations and a numerical solution of the vorticity equation, respectively.”
MTV measurements of the vortical field in the wake of an airfoil oscillating at high reduced frequency (2009, methodology): “…& Grosenbaugh 1993; Anderson et al. 1998) with typical chord Reynolds numbers in the range 104–105 and computational studies, both inviscid (Katz & Weihs 1978; Platzer, Neace, & Pang 1993; Jones & Platzer 1997) and viscous (Stanek & Visbal 1989; Liu & Kawachi 1999; Ramamurti & Sandberg 2001).”
Wake topology and hydrodynamic performance of low-aspect-ratio flapping foils (2006, background): “Other values of phase-difference between heaving and pitching have been examined by Isogai et al. (1999), Tuncer, Walz & Platzer (1998) and Ramamurti & Sandberg (2001) among others.”
Direct measurement of thrust and efficiency of an airfoil undergoing pure pitching (2015, methodology): “Figure 5 includes a comparison with the inviscid linear theory in Garrick (1936) and panel codes from Jones & Platzer (1997) and Ramamurti & Sandberg (2001).”