TY - JOUR
T1 - CFD study of aquatic thrust generation by an octopus-like arm under intense prescribed deformations
AU - Kazakidi, Asimina
AU - Tsakiris, Dimitris P.
AU - Angelidis, Dionysios
AU - Sotiropoulos, Fotis
AU - Ekaterinaris, John A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/7/2
Y1 - 2015/7/2
N2 - The complexity in structure and locomotion of cephalopods, such as the octopus, poses difficulties in modeling and simulation. Their slender arms, being highly agile and dexterous, often involve intense deformations, which are hard to simulate accurately, while simultaneously ensuring numerical stability and low diffusion of the transient motion results. Within the immersed-boundary framework, this paper focuses on an arm geometry performing prescribed motions that reflect octopus locomotion. The method is compared with a finite-volume numerical approach to determine the mesh requirements that must be employed for sufficiently capturing, not only the near wall viscous flow, but also the off-body vortical flow field in intense forced motions. The objective is to demonstrate and exploit the generality of the immersed boundary approach to complex numerical simulations of deforming geometries. Incorporation of arm deformation was found to increase the output thrust of a single-arm system. It was further found that sculling motion combined with arm undulations provides an effective propulsive scheme for an octopus-like arm.
AB - The complexity in structure and locomotion of cephalopods, such as the octopus, poses difficulties in modeling and simulation. Their slender arms, being highly agile and dexterous, often involve intense deformations, which are hard to simulate accurately, while simultaneously ensuring numerical stability and low diffusion of the transient motion results. Within the immersed-boundary framework, this paper focuses on an arm geometry performing prescribed motions that reflect octopus locomotion. The method is compared with a finite-volume numerical approach to determine the mesh requirements that must be employed for sufficiently capturing, not only the near wall viscous flow, but also the off-body vortical flow field in intense forced motions. The objective is to demonstrate and exploit the generality of the immersed boundary approach to complex numerical simulations of deforming geometries. Incorporation of arm deformation was found to increase the output thrust of a single-arm system. It was further found that sculling motion combined with arm undulations provides an effective propulsive scheme for an octopus-like arm.
KW - Aquatic locomotion
KW - Biological propulsion
KW - Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
KW - Immersed boundary method
KW - Large deformations
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.03.009
DO - 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.03.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927549305
SN - 0045-7930
VL - 115
SP - 54
EP - 65
JO - Computers and Fluids
JF - Computers and Fluids
ER -