鱼类叉状尾鳍效率转捩点水动力性能研究

Hydrodynamic Performance of Efficiency Transition Point of Forked Caudal Fins

鲔科鱼类具有较高的游动速度和游动效率,因此成为了仿生机器鱼的理想生物原型。为了研究鲔科鱼类叉状尾鳍效率转捩点的水动力特征,针对推力和功耗的源项进行重点分析。尾鳍模型采用了相同的表面面积、展弦比和叉长。为了统一尾鳍形状的尺度,采用扫掠角用于表征不同的叉状尾鳍平面结构。研究发现鲔科鱼类尾鳍扫掠角的增加弱化了尾鳍的有效面积,导致了尾鳍摆动时推动流体向下游运动而受到的反作用力降低,因此尾鳍的推进能力也会随之衰退。另外,扫掠角的增加也引起了前缘涡强度的增加和前缘涡的发展,从而造成了更大的涡增推力。然而,过分增加扫掠角尽管存在功耗下降的优势,但也引起推力和水动力效率的下降,特别是对于高斯特劳哈尔数的情况。通过对推力的源项进行分析发现扫掠角对附加质量力和涡增推力存在相反的作用机制。

Thunniform fish has high swimming speed and swimming efficiency and thus becomes the ideal biological prototype of bionic robotic fish.In order to study the hydrodynamic characteristics of the efficiency transition point of the forked caudal fins of thunniform fish,the source terms influencing thrust and power consumption were mainly analyzed.The caudal fin model used the same surface area,aspect ratio,and fork length.To unify the metrics about the fin shape,the sweep angle was used to represent the structure for the forked caudal fins in this paper.It is found that the increase in the sweep angle attenuates the available area of the caudal fin of the thunniform fish,resulting in a lower reaction force to push the fluid downstream when the caudal fin swings.As a result,the thrust of the caudal fin decreases.Additionally,the rise in the sweep angle also triggers the enhancement of the strength and the development of the leading-edge vortex,thereby inducing greater vortex-augmented thrusts.However,an excessive increase in the sweep angle may trigger a decline in the thrust and efficiency,especially for a high Strouhal number,along with a decrease in power consumption.It is found that the sweep angle has an opposite action on the added mass force and vortex-augmented thrust by analyzing the source term of thrust.