Wells turbine with end plates for wave energy conversion

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1790-1795

  Takao, Manabu ^a   Setoguchi, Toshiaki ^b   Kinoue, Yoichi ^b   Kaneko, Kenji ^b  

^a MATSUE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); End plate; Fluid machinery; Natural energy; Ocean engineering; Wave energy conversion; Wells turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; WAVE POWER;

END PLATE; FLUID MACHINERY; WELLS TURBINE;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBINE; WAVE ENERGY; WELL;

EID: 34247245883     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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