Overall efficiency of ducted tidal current turbines

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shives, M ^a   Crawford, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; FLOWTHROUGH; INCIDENT FLOW; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM OPERATING CONDITIONS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; POWER COEFFICIENTS; POWER PRODUCTION; TIDAL CURRENTS; TOTAL POWER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

TURBINES;

EID: 78651304688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5664426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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