Experimental and computational analysis on guide vane losses of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion

Renewable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1359-1372

  Thakker, A ^a   Dhanasekaran, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Guide vane; Turbine; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBINES; TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FLOW ANALYSIS; IMPULSE TURBINES; POWER CONVERSION; WAVE ENERGY;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW ANALYSIS; GUIDE VANE; TURBINE; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 14644419028     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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