Optimal thrust development in oscillating foils with application to fish propulsion

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 205-224

  Triantafyllou, G S ^a   Triantafyllou, M S ^b   Grosenbaugh, M A ^c  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949266298     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: 10958622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfls.1993.1012     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Bainbridge, R. 1958 The speed of swimming of fish as related to size and to the frequency and amplitude of the tailbeat. Journal of Experimental Biology 35, 109-133.
2. Bainbridge, R. 1963 Caudal fin and body movement in the propulsion of some fish. Journal of Experimental Biology 40, 23-56.
3. Bers, A. 1983 Basic plasma physics I. In Handbook of Plasma Physics, Vol. 1 (eds M. N. Rosebluth & R. Z. Zagdeev), Chapter 3.2. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co
4. Chopra, M. G. 1974 Hydromechanics of lunate-tail swimming propulsion. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 64, 375-391.
5. Chopra, M. G. 1976 Large amplitude lunate tail theory of fish locomotion. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 74, 161-182
6. Chopra, M. G. 1977 Hydromechanics of lunate tail swimming propulsion: Part 2. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 79, 49-69.
7. Dubois, A. B. & Ogilvy, C. S. 1978 Forces on the tail surface of swimming fish: thrust, drag and acceleration in bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). Journal of Experimental Biology 77, 225-241.
8. Fage, A. & Johansen, F. C. 1928 The Structure of Vortex Sheets. Philosophical Magazine Series S7 5(28), 417-441.
9. Freymuth, P. 1988 Propulsive vortical signature of plunging and pitching airfoils. AIAA Journal 26, 881-883.
10. Freymuth, P., Gustafson, K. E. & Leben, R. 1991 Visualization and computation of hovering mode. In Vortex Methods and Vortex Motion (eds K. E. Gustafson & J. A. Sethian). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: SIAM.
11. Greidanus, J. H., Van de Vooren, A. I. & Bergh, H. 1952 Experimental determination of the aerodynamic coefficients of an oscillating wing in incompressible, two-dimensional flow. Parts I-IV, National Luchtvaart-laboratorium, Amsterdam, Reports F-101, 102, 103 and 104.
12. Halfman, R. L. 1952 Experimental aerodynamic derivatives of sinusoidally oscillating airfoil in two-dimensional flow. N.A.C.A. Report 1108.
13. Huerre, P. & Monkewitz, P. A. 1990 Local and global instabilities in spatially developing flows. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 22, 473-537.
14. Hunter, J. R. & Zweifel, J. R. 1971 Swimming speed, tail beat frequency, tail beat amplitude, and size in jack mackerel Trachurus symmetricus, and other fishes. Fishery Bulletin 69, 253-266.
15. Isshiki, H. & Murakami, M. 1984 A theory of wave devouring propulsion. Society of Naval Architects of Japan 156, 102-114.
16. Kadlec, R. A. & Davis, S. S. 1979 Visualization of quasiperiodic flows. AIAA Journal, 17, 1164-1169.
17. Karman, T. Von & Burgess, J. M. 1935 General aerodynamic theory: perfect fluids. In Aerodynamic Theory, Vol. II (ed. W. F. Durand), p. 308. Leipzig: Springer Verlag.
18. Karniadakis, G. H. & Triantafyllou, G. S. 1989 Frequency selection and asymptotic states in laminar wakes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 199, 441-469.
19. Koochesfahani, M. 1989 Vortical patterns in the wake of an oscillating airfoil. AIAA Journal 27, 1200-1205.
20. Lang, T. G. & Daybell, D. A. 1963 Porpoise performance tests in sea-water tank, U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, NAVWEPS Report 8060, NOTS TP 3063, China Lake, California.
21. Lighthill, M. J. 1969 Hydromechanics of aquatic animal propulsion. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 1, 413-446.
22. Lighthill, M. J. 1970 Aquatic animal propulsion of high hydromechanical efficiency. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 44, 265-301.
23. Lighthill, M. J. 1975 Mathematical Biofluiddynamics. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
24. McCroskey, W. J. 1982. Unsteady airfoils. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 14, 285-311.
25. Moore, D. W. 1976 The stability of evolving two-dimensional vortex sheets. Mathematica 23, 35-44.
26. Ohashi, H. & Ishikawa, N. 1972 Visualization study of a flow near the trailing edge of an oscillating airfoil. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers 15, 840-845.
27. Oshima, Y. & Oshima, K. 1980 Vortical flow behind an oscillating airfoil. In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, pp. 357-368. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co.
28. Oshima, Y. & Natsume, A. 1980 Flow field around an oscillating airfoil. In Flow Visualization II, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Flow Visualization, Bochum, W. Germany (ed. W. Merzkirch), pp. 295-299. New York: Hemisphere Publishing Co.
29. Païdoussis, M. P. 1976 Hydroelastic ichthyoid propulsion. Journal of Hydronautics 10, 30-32.
30. Pyatetskiy, V. Y. 1970 Kinematic swimming characteristics of some fast marine fish. In Hydrodynamic Problems of Bionics (ed. G. V. Logvinovich) pp. 12-23. Translated from the Russian: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service, JPRS-52605, 1971.
31. Rosen, M. W. 1963 Flow visualization experiments with a dolphin, U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, NAVWEPS Report 8062, NOTS TP 3065, China Lake, California.
32. Schlichting, H. 1955 Boundary Layer Theory, Seventh edition (1979). New York: McGraw-Hill.
33. Triantafyllou, G. S., Triantafyllou, M. S. & Chryssostomidis, C. 1986 On the formation of vortex streets behind stationary cylinders. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 170, 461-477.
34. Triantafyllou, G. S., Kupfer, K. & Bers, A. 1987 Absolute instabilities and self-sustained oscillations in the wakes of circular cylinders. Physical Review Letters 59, 1914-1917.
35. Triantafyllou, G. S., Triantafyllou, M. S. & Gopalkrishnan, R. 1991 Wake mechanics for thrust generation in oscillating foils. Physics of Fluids A 3, 2835-2837.
36. Videler, J. J. 1981 Swimming movements, body structure and propulsion in cod Gadus morhua. In Vertebrate Locomotion (ed. M. H. Day), pp. 1-27. New York: Academic Press.
37. Videler, J. J. & Hess, F. 1984 Fast continuous swimming of two pelagic predators, saithe (Pollachius virens) and mackerel (Scomber scombrus): a kinematic analysis. Journal of Experimental Biology 109, 209-228.
38. Webb, P. W. 1971 The swimming energetics of trout: I. Thrust and power output at cruising speeds. Journal of Experimental Biology 55, 489-520.
39. Webb, W. P. 1973 Effects of partial caudal-fin amputation on the kinematics and metabolic rate of underyearling sock eye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) at steady swimming speeds. Journal of Experimental Biology 59, 565-581.
40. Webb, P. W. & Keyes, R. S. 1982 Swimming kinematics of sharks. Fishery Bulletin 80, 803-812.
41. Webb, P. W. & Kostecki, P. T. 1984 The effect of size and swimming speed on locomotor kinematics of rainbow trout. Journal of Experimental Biology 109, 77-95.
42. Wu, T. Y. 1961 Swimming of a waving plate. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 10, 321-344.
43. Wu, T. Y. 1971a Hydromechanics of swimming propulsion. Part 1. Swimming of a two-dimensional flexible plate at variable forward speeds in an inviscid fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 46, 337-355.
44. Wu, T. Y. 1971b Hydromechanics of swimming propulsion. Part 2, Some optimum shape problems. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 46, 521-544.
45. Wu, T. Y. 1971c Hydromechanics of swimming propulsion. Part 3. Swimming and optimum movement of slender fish with side fins. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 46, 545-568.