Analysis on Numerical Simulation for Bionic Robot Fish Based on CATIA

Abstract:

Based on the problem that there is a relatively small number of analog simulations on swimming of fish a in specific fluid conducted by science researchers, a simulated tuna model is established in this paper, in which CATIA is used to construct the streamline shape of simulated tuna and the method of computational fluid dynamics is utilized to simulate the swimming of tuna in marine environment. Indexes for fluid performance such as pressure on the surface of robot fish, turbulence kinetic energy and flow velocity of fluid around are focused on, and preliminary research on the variation trend of pressure on the robot fish and of turbulence kinetic energy at different velocities is conducted in this paper. Theoretical analysis and experimental research conducted in this paper may provide some references for design of shape of robot fish in the future.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 742)
• Pages: 511-515
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.742.511
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: De Jian Li
• Keywords: Bionic, CATIA, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Tuna

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