Bio-inspired Flow Sensing and Prediction for Fish-like Undulating Locomotion: A CFD-aided Approach

• Main Authors: Zhou, Han, Hu, Tianjiang, Low, Kin Huat, Shen, Lincheng, Ma, Zhaowei, Wang, Guangming, Xu, Haijun
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Bio-inspired fish undulating locomotion; Flow sensing; Near-body pressure; Flow velocity estimation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81054; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39080
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Feedback flow information is of significance to enable underwater locomotion controllers with higher adaptability and efficiency within varying environments. Inspired from fish sensing their external flow via near-body pressure, a computational scheme is proposed and developed in this paper. In conj...