Hernández Montoya Enrique Eduardo, Mendoza Edgar, Stamhuis Eize J
Biomimetic Group, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, 9712 CP Groningen, The Netherlands.
Instituto de Ingeniería, Grupo de Ingeniería de Costas y Puertos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
Biomimetics (Basel). 2023 Mar 11;8(1):118. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics8010118.
The enhancement of energy technology and innovation play a crucial role in order to meet the challenges related to global warming in the coming decades. Inspired by bird wings, the performance of a bio-inspired blade assembled to a marine turbine model, is examined. Following a biomimetic pathway, the aerodynamic performance of the bird wings of the species Common Guillemot () was tested in a wind tunnel laboratory. Based on our results, we derived a bio-inspired blade model by following a laser scanning method. Lastly, the bio-inspired blades were assembled to a marine turbine model and tested in a large flow tank facility. We found efficiencies (Cp) up to 0.3 which is around 53% of the maximum power that can be expected from the turbine model according to the Betz approach. Our findings are analyzed in the discussion section as well as considerations for future research.
为应对未来几十年与全球变暖相关的挑战，能源技术的提升和创新起着至关重要的作用。受鸟翼启发，对组装在海洋涡轮机模型上的仿生叶片的性能进行了研究。遵循仿生路径，在风洞实验室中测试了普通海鸠（）这种鸟类翅膀的空气动力学性能。基于我们的研究结果，通过激光扫描方法得出了一个仿生叶片模型。最后，将仿生叶片组装到海洋涡轮机模型上，并在大型水槽设施中进行测试。我们发现效率（Cp）高达0.3，根据贝兹方法，这约为涡轮机模型预期最大功率的53%。在讨论部分对我们的研究结果进行了分析，并对未来研究进行了思考。
