Idealized headland simulation for tidal hydrokinetic turbine siting metrics

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thyng, Kristen M ^a   Riley, James J ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA OF INTEREST; ENERGY SITES; MARINE ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; TIDAL FLOW; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); INLET FLOW; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBINES;

TIDAL POWER;

EID: 78651326815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5663914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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