Hysteretic characteristics of monoplane and biplane Wells turbine for wave power conversion

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1617-1629

  Kinoue, Yoichi ^a   Kim, Tae Ho ^a   Setoguchi, Toshiaki ^a   Mohammad, Mamun ^a   Kaneko, Kenji ^a   Inoue, Masahiro ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluid machinery; Hysteresis; Separation; Unsteady flow; Vortex; Wave power; Wells turbine

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; HYSTERESIS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEPARATION; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

FLUID MACHINARY; WELLS TURBINES;

WAVE POWER;

EID: 0442312329     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2003.08.021     Document Type: Article

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