Simulation Platform for Fishlike Swimming

Abstract:

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique is considered as an effective approach for analysis of fishlike swimming, which quantitatively visualizes interaction between fishes and their fluid environment. This paper proposed and developed a simulation environment for understanding fish locomotion and hydrodynamic effects during the self-propulsion in a flow field. Approximate kinetic model or/and shape description based camera observation are recommended to specify active deformation of the body. Burst-Coast swimming is analyzed as an illustration of the simulation platform.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 461)
• Pages: 451-458
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.461.451
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Han Zhou, Tian Jiang Hu, Guang Ming Wang, Dai Bing Zhang, Yun Xiao Lv
• Keywords: Burst-and-Coast, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fish Swimming, Self-Propulsion

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