Effect of angle of attack profiles in flapping foil propulsion

By Franz S. Hover, Ø. Haugsdal, Michael S. Triantafyllou. 2004

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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Citations in the corpus

Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Propulsion (2005, background): “…Liu, 2002; Zhu et al., 2002; Cortez et al., 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).”
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.”
Fish biorobotics: kinematics and hydrodynamics of self-propulsion (2007, methodology): “…BIOLOGY 2771Fish locomotor biorobotics has been used in many studies of flapping foil-based propulsion and to evaluate the effect of locomotion in the wake of upstream bluff bodies such as a cylinder or rock placed in the flow (e.g. Beal et al., 2006; Hover et al., 2004; Techet et al., 1998).”
Hydrodynamic effects of leading-edge tubercles on control surfaces and in flapping foil propulsion (2008, methodology): “Researchers have already improved thrust and efficiency of heavepitch flapping foils by making them flexible or by explicitly specifying attack angle profiles [10, 21].”
How motion trajectory affects energy extraction performance of a biomimic energy generator with an oscillating foil (2012, methodology): “[10] through experiments, where aeff was forced to be a cosine and then the plunging motion was derived.”
Unsteady force generation and vortex dynamics of pitching and plunging aerofoils (2012, unknown): “[27] where it was reported that a sinusoidal effective angle of attack at higher St increases the thrust coefficient substantially compared to the effective angle of attack profile produced by a sinusoidal plunge motion.”