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  • Title: Improved swimming performance in schooling fish via leading-edge vortex enhancement.
    Author: Seo JH, Mittal R.
    Journal: Bioinspir Biomim; 2022 Nov 03; 17(6):. PubMed ID: 36261046.
    Abstract:
    The hydrodynamics of schooling fish has been the subject of continued investigation over the last 50 years; fish schools exhibit a variety of arrangements and several distinct mechanisms have been proposed to explain the hydrodynamic benefits of schooling. In the current study, we use direct numerical simulations to show that a caudal fin swimmer trailing another similar swimmer can significantly improve its swimming performance by positioning itself such that the wake-induced flow of the leading fish, enhances the leading-edge vortex (LEV) on the fin of the trailing fish. Improvements of up to 12% in both the thrust and efficiency of the trailing fish are possible with this mechanism. The mechanisms underlying these interactional effects are quantitatively analyzed by applying the force partitioning method, a powerful data-driven method that partitions the pressure forces on the fish into mechanistically distinct components. The analysis reveals that the LEV on the fin dominates the overall thrust production for these swimmers and its enhancement therefore provides an effective and robust means for harnessing fish-fish hydrodynamic interactions in a school. In addition to confirming the potential energetic benefits of schooling, the LEV enhancement mechanism could be exploited in coordinated swimming of bioinspired multi-vehicle or multi-foil flapping foil propulsion systems.
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