摘要：Based on the backgrounds of underwater propulsors with high hydrodynamic performance, the article focuses on the flapping foils in tandem arrangement and tries to formulate the physical mode and mathematical model of flapping propulsion. Using the commercial software Fluent, the governing equations are discretized by the finite volume method, and dynamic mesh method is adopted to solve the moving boundaries. In order to verify validity and feasibility of the method, hydrodynamic performance of single flapping foil is analyzed. The present results of single flapping foil compare well with those in experimental researches. After that, numerical simulations of flapping foils in tandem arrangement are conducted to reveal the energy absorption mechanisms. By extracting performance parameters and characteristics of the flow field, the interaction between upstream foil and downstream foil is analyzed. The results indicate that the vortices shedding from upstream foil have a significant effect on the hydrodynamic performance of downstream foil, and the downstream foil can use energy from the flow field to improve the hydrodynamic performance. Therefore, the hydrodynamic performance of the system can be improved by adjusting the locations of foils and motion parameters.
