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Qizong Sun, Ertian Hua, Liying Sun, Linfeng Qiu, Yabo Song and Mingwang Xiang
The flapping hydrofoil bionic pump is an innovative hydrodynamic device that utilizes flapping hydrofoil technology. Flapping hydrofoil bionic pumps are crucial in addressing issues like inadequate river hydropower and limited water purification capabili...
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Lei Mei, Wenhui Yan, Junwei Zhou and Weichao Shi
Recent studies indicate that bow foil biomimetic systems can significantly improve ship propulsion in waves. In this paper, the DTMB 5415 ship model is taken as the object and a semi-active elastic flapping foil is proposed to install at its bow underwat...
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Ruixuan He, Xinjing Wang, Jian Li, Xiaodong Liu and Baowei Song
Recently, inspired by the flippers of humpback whales, researchers have been widely studying leading-edge tubercles for use as passive flow control devices. In this research, we numerically investigated the effects of leading-edge tubercles on a three-di...
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Boai Sun, Weikun Li, Zhangyuan Wang, Yunpeng Zhu, Qu He, Xinyan Guan, Guangmin Dai, Dehan Yuan, Ang Li, Weicheng Cui and Dixia Fan
Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore, they have gained an increasing research interest, which has led to a ...
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Kostas Belibassakis, Evangelos Filippas and George Papadakis
Flapping-foil thrusters arranged at the bow of the ship are examined for the exploitation of energy from wave motions by direct conversion to useful propulsive power, offering at the same time dynamic stability and reduction of added wave resistance. In ...
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Iro Malefaki and Kostas Belibassakis
Biomimetic flapping-foil thrusters can operate efficiently while offering desirable levels of thrust required for the propulsion of a small vessel or an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). These systems have been studied both as main propulsion devices ...
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Kostas Belibassakis, John Prospathopoulos and Iro Malefaki
Flapping-foil thrusters are systems that operate at a substantially lower frequency compared with marine propellers and are characterized by a much smaller power concentration. These biomimetic devices are able to operate very efficiently, offering desir...
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Dimitris Ntouras, George Papadakis and Kostas Belibassakis
Flapping foils for augmenting thrust production have drawn attention as a means of assisting ship propulsion in waves due to their high efficiency rate compared to traditional screw propellers. However, they can also offer substantial resistance reductio...
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Jian Li, Peng Wang, Xiaoyi An, Da Lyu, Ruixuan He and Baoshou Zhang
Flapping foils are studied to achieve an efficient propeller. The performance of the flapping foil is influenced by many factors such as oncoming vortices, heaving amplitude, and geometrical parameters. In this paper, investigations are performed on flap...
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Zhanfeng Qi, Min Jiang, Lishuang Jia, Bo Zou and Jingsheng Zhai
A numerical investigation on the propulsion performance of the semi-active flapping foil of the wave glider with different mass ratio and damping coefficient is investigated. The commercial CFD software Fluent is used to solve the URANS equations around ...
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