Radial impulse turbine for wave energy conversion. A new geometry

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 841-850

  Pereiras, B ^a   Castro, F ^a   El Marjani, A ^b   Rodriguez, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

3D CFD simulation; Radial impulse turbine; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; AIR FLOW; AIR TURBINE; CFD SIMULATIONS; FLOW BEHAVIOURS; FLOW DIRECTION; IMPULSE TURBINES; LOCAL FLOWS; MCCORMICK; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN-WAVE ENERGY; OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN; WAVE ENERGY; WELLS TURBINE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; MECHANICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 77958014423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2008-57951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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