HydroPêche : experimental and numerical devlopments for fishing devices optimisation
The goal of HydroPêche project is to develop tools for trawl optimisation in order to minimize the drag of the gear. A work in three areas : extend the basis of experimental data on flow characteristics governing the hydrodynamic behaviour of different porous structures ; developp numerical tools to simulate more realistic flow around porous structures taking into account fluid / structure interactions ; develop optimisation tools to design efficient trawls in terms of energy consumption.