Journal of System Simulation ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 870-877.doi: 10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.20-0929

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Study on Near-body Pressure Characteristics of Bionic Robotic Fish Undulating in Near Wall Region

Ou Xie1,2(), Aiguo Song1, Qixin Zhu2   

  1. 1.School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
    2.School of Mechanical Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
  • Received:2020-11-27 Revised:2021-02-22 Online:2022-04-30 Published:2022-04-20

Abstract:

To accommodate the dark and unstructured underwater working environment, the near-body pressure distribution characteristics of a bionic robot fish undulating in near wall region is studied. The feasibility of using artificial lateral line(ALL) to estimate the wall effect and flow field parameters is analyzed theoretically. A CFD(computational fluid dynamics) coupled solution model for near-body pressure simulation of a bionic robotic fish swimming near the wall is established and a near-body pressure data extraction and processing method is proposed. The effect of the wall clearance, inlet flow velocity and strouhal number (St) on the fish near-body pressure distribution is analyzed. The results show that the wall effect and inlet flow velocity can be characterized by near-body pressure distribution, which provides a reference for the flow field identification and parameter prediction in the unstructured underwater environment.

Key words: bionic robot fish, artificial lateral line(ALL), computational fluid dynamics(CFD), wall effect, near-body pressure distribution

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