Boundary-element method for the prediction of performance of flapping foils with leading-edge separation

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 698, Issue , 2012, Pages 446-467

  Pan, Yulin ^a   Dong, Xiaoxia ^a   Zhu, Qiang ^a,b   Yue, Dick K P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

flow structure interactions; propulsion

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; EFFICIENCY; FLOW VELOCITY; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROPULSION; SAILING VESSELS; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLOW-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MOTION AMPLITUDES; PREDICTION OF PERFORMANCE; SPECIAL TREATMENTS; THIN SHEAR LAYERS; THRUST GENERATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 84859962761     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.119     Document Type: Article

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