An improved radial impulse turbine for OWC

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1477-1484

  Pereiras, Bruno ^a   Castro, Francisco ^a   Marjani, Abdelatif el ^b   Rodríguez, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

CFD; Flow analysis; OWC; Radial impulse turbine; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

CFD; FLOW ANALYSIS; IMPULSE TURBINES; OWC; WAVE ENERGY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DESIGN; DISTILLATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WAVE ENERGY; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 78650753275     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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