Dong Lu, Zhu Jianyang, Song Zhenyu, et al. INFLUENCE OF V-SHAPED GROUP CONFIGURATION ON ENERGY HARVESTING CHARACTERISTICS OF FLAPPING HYDROFOIL[J]. 2025, 46(3): 7-15.
Dong Lu, Zhu Jianyang, Song Zhenyu, et al. INFLUENCE OF V-SHAPED GROUP CONFIGURATION ON ENERGY HARVESTING CHARACTERISTICS OF FLAPPING HYDROFOIL[J]. 2025, 46(3): 7-15. DOI: 10.19912/j.0254-0096.tynxb.2023-1817.
INFLUENCE OF V-SHAPED GROUP CONFIGURATION ON ENERGY HARVESTING CHARACTERISTICS OF FLAPPING HYDROFOIL
Numerical analysis and Taguchi method are applied to investigate the impact of the V-shaped staggered configuration on the energy harvesting performance of the flapping hydrofoil. The results show that the three hydrofoils in a V-shaped group configuration with optimum parameters increased the output efficiency by 16.48% compared with the single hydrofoil. Meanwhile
the influence degree of the five parameters considered in this work on the performance can be ordered as \phi L_{x} L_{y} \theta_{0} f^{*}
which means that the phase difference between upstream and downstream hydrofoil has the greatest impact on the output performance of the flapping hydrofoil and that of the flapping frequency is weakest. The analysis of the flow field structure around the flapping hydrofoil reveals that under the optimal combination of characteristic parameters
the greater dynamic pressure can be obtained by the downstream hydrofoil
which is induced by the shedding vortex of the upstream hydrofoils
and it is the reason why the group flapping hydrofoil can extract more energy.
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