Hydrodynamic analysis of fishlike robot swimming in the straight forward way

2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3342-3347

  Xia, Dan ^a   Liu, Junkao ^a   Chen, Weishan ^a   Han, Luhui ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fishlike robot; Hydrodynamics; Pressure gradient; Propulsive efficiency; Thrust force

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED FLOWS; DYNAMIC MESH TECHNIQUE; FISHLIKE ROBOT; HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; LIFT FORCE; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; POSITIVE PRESSURE; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; ROBOT MOTION; SELF-PROPULSION; SINE FUNCTIONS; SWIMMING ROBOT; THRUST FORCES; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS;

FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHATRONICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROPULSION; ROBOTS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77449105565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2009.5246298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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