Energy Harvesting and Propulsion of Pitching Airfoils with Passive Heave and Deformation

What is it about?

A general model for the fluid–structure interaction of a flapping foil with prescribed pitch and passive heave and flexural deformation is given within the linear framework using a quartic approximation for the deflection. The resulting system of three algebraic equations allows for a depth parametric survey and analysis of both the propulsion and the energy harvesting problems

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