A study on the effects of blade profile and non-uniform tip clearance of the wells turbine

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 625-632

  Takao, Manabu ^a   Setoguchi, Toshiaki ^b   Nagata, Shuichi ^b   Toyota, Kazutaka ^b  

^a MATSUE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR COLUMN; AIR TURBINE; BLADE PROFILE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW CONDITION; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MODEL TESTING; NONUNIFORM; OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN; PORTUGAL; QUASI-STEADY; ROTOR BLADES; RUNNING CHARACTERISTIC; TEST SECTIONS; TIP CLEARANCE; TURBINE PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER COLUMNS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY DEVICES; WAVE MOTIONS; WELLS TURBINE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; GAS TURBINES; HELICOPTER ROTORS; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; MECHANICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER; WELLS;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 77958005674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2008-57235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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