A numerical study of the propulsive efficiency of a flapping hydrofoil

DOI10.1002/fld.525zbMath1030.76065OpenAlexW2100221603MaRDI QIDQ4446983

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Publication date: 3 February 2004

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.525

zbMATH Keywords

flow separationmoving boundariesparametric analysisarbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian methodviscous effectsswimming propulsionflow visualisationshydrofoil efficiencytwo-dimensional flapping hydrofoil

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Biomechanics (92C10) Physiological flows (76Z05)

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• On the swimming of a flexible plate of arbitrary finite thickness