Air Turbine with Staggered Blades for Wave Power Conversion

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn 12, Issue , 2002, Pages 662-667

  Setoguchi, T ^a   Kim, T H ^a   Kaneko, K ^a   Takao, M ^b   Lee, Y W ^c   Inoue, M ^d  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MATSUE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air turbine; Fluid machinery; Natural energy; Ocean energy; Unsteady flow; Wave power conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED AIR MOTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; STEADY FLOW; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WATER WAVES;

FLUID MACHINERY; NATURAL ENERGY; OCEAN ENERGY;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 1842503887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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