ABSTRACT
Bio-inspired propulsion systems have many advantages over the conventional ones. They are found to be noiseless and eco-friendly. Most of the aquatic locomotion makes use of oscillations, paddling and water-jet for producing net thrust on the body. In this paper a box-fish shaped unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) has been considered for studying its controllability. A RANS based CFD method has been implemented for simulating manoeuvring motions in heave and pitch to obtain the forces and moments during such motions.
