Comparative Study of Effect of Fin Arrangement on Propulsion Performance of Bio-Inspired Underwater Vehicles with Multiple SMA Fins

• Main Authors: He, Jian-hui, Zhang, Yong-hua, Low, Kin-huat
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biologically-inspired Underwater Vehicle (BIUV); Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85004; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42057
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A biologically inspired underwater vehicle (BIUV) was built using multiple lightweight bio-inspired shape memory alloy (SMA) fins. An unsteady 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method using an unstructured, grid-based, and unsteady Navier-Stokes solver with automatic adaptive re-meshing was adop...