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Alternative methods - Collaborative project: Reduction of animal testing to establish risk of injury on fish caused by turbine passage through the use of robotic surrogates, computational fluid mechanics and predictive modeling. Subproject B (RETERO)
Project
Project code: 031L0152B
Contract period: 01.03.2019
- 28.02.2022
Budget: 192,001 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: biology, ethohydraulics, hydraulic engineering, fluid mechanics, microelectronic engineering, information technology
The objective of the project is to reduce the use of live fish experiments in the evaluation of injuries caused by passage through turbines and other descent corridors in installations. This is done by complementing (and in the longer term replacing) those experiments with partly-autonomous robotic systems and numerical simulations: Electronic fish surrogates will be outfitted with custom pressure and inertial sensors to evaluate and establish physical thresholds of hydropower-induced damage and mortality caused by the downstream passage through turbines and hydraulic structures. Measurement data from the robotic fish will be combined with a numerical model which will provide finely-resolved information about the flow combined with a fish behavior model.
Section overview
Subjects
- Freshwater fisheries
- Agricultural hydrology
- Computer science
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: RETERO
- Alternative methods - Collaborative project: Reduction of animal testing to establish risk of injury on fish caused by turbine passage through the use of robotic surrogates, computational fluid mechanics and predictive modeling. Subproject C
- Alternative methods - Collaborative project: Reduction of animal testing to establish risk of injury on fish caused by turbine passage through the use of robotic surrogates, computational fluid mechanics and predictive modeling. Subproject A
- Alternative methods - Collaborative project: Reduction of animal testing to establish risk of injury on fish caused by turbine passage through the use of robotic surrogates, computational fluid mechanics and predictive modeling. Subproject D
