Performance of a high-solidity wells turbine for an OWC wave power plant

Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 263-268

  Gato, L M C ^a   Warfield, V ^b   Thakker, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AIR; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GAS TURBINES; PERFORMANCE;

AIR FLOW; HIGH-SOLIDITY WELLS TURBINE; WAVE POWER PLANT;

WAVE POWER;

EID: 0030403814     PISSN: 01950738     EISSN: 15288994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2793872     Document Type: Article

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