Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Professor Pengfei LiuORCiD
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
A numerical method, the quasi-vortex-lattice method (QVLM), was applied to predict the propulsive performance of three naturally occurring oscillating propellers. These were cetacean flukes for a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus); white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus); and white whale (Delphinapterus leucas). The fin whale's flukes had the highest aspect ratio (6.1) and moderate sweep angle (31°); the white-sided dolphin's flukes had the highest sweep angle (47°) and lowest aspect ratio (2.7); and the white whale's flukes had moderate aspect ratio (3.3) and the lowest sweep angle (28°). In the numerical simulations, the planforms were assumed to be rigid both in chordwise and spanwise directions, and to be oscillating harmonically in an irrotational, incompressible fluid. Calculation and comparisons of propulsive efficiency and thrust coefficient vs advance ratio for each of the planforms were made in three cases: varied heave amplitude; different pitching axis positions; and varied angular amplitude of pitch. © 1992.
Author(s): Liu P, Bose N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Ocean Engineering
Year: 1993
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Pages: 57-75
Print publication date: 01/01/1993
Online publication date: 18/02/2003
ISSN (print): 0029-8018
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5258
Publisher: Pergamon Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0029-8018(93)90046-K
DOI: 10.1016/0029-8018(93)90046-K
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
