Undulating Propulsion System Design

Abstract

[Abstract] Throughout history the practical implementation of propulsion mechanisms in the fluid environment based on the rotation has been easier to deal because of the state of the art in its time, and this has meant that it has not been more interest a further development of wave based mechanisms which are most of those seen in nature. The Research Group Innovacións Mariñas, attached to the Ship Building Department. (University of A Coruña) is currently developing a wave propeller prototype (based on a invention whose antecedent can be found in invention patent nr. 200002012, author Primitivo B. Gonzalez), applicable to systems and bodies located in fluid environment, and based on the way chosen by first living organisms to move. We are currently finishing the construction of a prototype for trials in a testing tank, whose virtual model has been developed with SOLID EDGE V.18 and its components calculated with the help of finite element module that incorporates this software. Simulation of the propeller performance has been done through software FLUENT 6.3