Nature in engineering for monitoring the oceans: Towards a bio-inspired flexible autonomous underwater vehicle operating in an unsteady flow

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment

Volumn 224, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 267-278

  Phillips, A B ^a   Blake, J I ^a   Smith, B ^a   Boyd, S W ^a   Griffiths, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autonomous underwater vehicle; bio inspired; flexible slender cylinder; fluid structure interaction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BIO-INSPIRATION; BIO-INSPIRED; BLUFF BODY; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; FLEXIBLE CYLINDERS; FLOW FREQUENCIES; MANOEUVRABILITY; MARINE ANIMALS; NATURAL VIBRATION; POWER INPUT; SLENDER CYLINDER; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV);

AERODYNAMICS; ANIMALS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBMERSIBLES; TANKERS (SHIPS); UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNSTEADY FLOW; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WATER CRAFT; FISH; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 78149265222     PISSN: 14750902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/14750902JEME201     Document Type: Article

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