Innovative manufacture of impulse turbine blades for wave energy power conversion

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 216, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1053-1059

  Thakker, A ^a   Sheahan, C ^a   Frawley, P ^a   Khaleeq, H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

FDM rapid prototyping; Impulse turbine; Manufacturing and concurrent engineering; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAVE POWER;

IMPULSE TURBINE BLADES;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0036316477     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544050260174247     Document Type: Article

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