MIT ocean and mechanical engineers are using advances in scientific computing to tackle challenges such as microplastics, algae blooms, coral bleaching, and rising temperatures.
The team is developing and using numerical simulation approaches to explore the design space for underwater devices that have an increase in degrees of freedom, for instance due to fish-like, deformable fins. Using swarming technology, they also test how vehicles periodically communicate its location to other vehicles nearby. This software enables these vehicles to disperse in an optimal distribution for the portion of the ocean in which they are operating. Their goal is to develop higher-performing underwater devices, and improve ocean modeling and predictions.
“Fish have intricate internal musculature to adapt the precise shape of their bodies and fins. This allows them to propel themselves in many different ways, well beyond what any man-made vehicle can do in terms of maneuverability, agility, or adaptivity,” said Wim van Rees, the ABS Career Development Professor at MIT.
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