The invention belongs to the technical field of
fluid simulation, and relates to a
simulation method for fish school swimming and
water flow coupling in a culture net cage, which comprises the following steps:
coupling a
monomer fish motion model with a netting model, calculating
monomer fish stress, obtaining fish school stress of the whole net cage, and calculating a
porous medium coefficient of a fish school
porous medium model; assuming: a, fish bodies in the net cage have the same specification and do not influence each other; b, when the fish schools move in an incident flow mode, all the fish schools are arranged and evenly distributed in the net cage in an incident flow mode; c, when the fish schools swim in the circumferential mode, the radial intervals are equal, and the fish schools are evenly distributed in the vertical direction. Based on the
hypothesis, an imaginary volume force source item is added in the area where the fish school is located to approximate the
choked flow effect of the fish school; and carrying
out stress calculation to obtain the stress of the
porous medium area. According to the method, the accuracy of the calculation model is ensured, meanwhile, the
simulation complexity of movement of a large number of fish schools in the
aquaculture net cage is reduced, and accurate
simulation of flow fields in and around the
aquaculture net cage under the influence of fish school swimming is achieved.