Numerical simulations of self-propelled swimming of 3D bionic fish school

Numerical simulations of self-propelled swimming of a three dimensional bionic fish and fish school in a viscous fluid are carried out.This is done with the assistance of a parallel software package produced for 3D moving boundary problems.This computational fluid dynamics package combines the adaptive multi-grid finite volume method,the immersed boundary method and VOF (volume of fluid) method.By using the package results of the self-propelled swimming of a 3D bionic fish and fish school in a viscous fluid are obtained.With comparison to the existing experimental measurements of living fishes,the predicted structure of vortical wakes is in good agreement with the measurements.