Effects of towing tank walls on the performance of a Vertical Axis Turbine

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Alidadi, Mahmoud ^a   Calisal, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrete vortex method; Panel method; Power coefficient; Towing tank; Vertical axis turbine; Walls effect

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE VORTEX METHOD; PANEL METHOD; POWER COEFFICIENT; TOWING TANK; VERTICAL AXIS TURBINE; WALLS EFFECT;

ENGINES; SHIP MODEL TANKS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 50449098213     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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