简介：Fishareabletomakegooduseofvortices.Inacomplexflowfield,manyfishcontinuetomaintainbothefficientcruisingandmaneuverability.Traditionalman-madepropulsionsystemsperformpoorlyincomplexflowfields.Withfish-likepropulsionsystems,itisimportanttopaymoreattentiontocomplexflowfields.Inthispaper,theinfluenceofvorticesonthehydrodynamicperformanceof2-Dflapping-foilswasinvestigated.Theflapping-foilheavedandpitchedundertheinfluenceofinflowvorticesgeneratedbyanoscillatingD-sectioncylinder.Anumericalsimulationwasrunbasedthefinitevolumemethod,usingthecomputationalfluiddynamics(CFD)softwareFLUENTwithReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)equationsapplied.Inaddition,dynamicmeshtechnologyandpostprocessingsystemswerealsofullyused.Thecalculationsshowedfourmodesofinteraction.Thehydrodynamicperformanceofflapping-foilswasanalyzedandtheresultscomparedwithexperimentaldata.Thisvalidatedthenumericalsimulation,confirmingthatflapping-foilscanincreaseefficiencybyabsorbingenergyfrominflowvortices.