Numerical simulation of the wake of marine current turbines with a particle method

Renewable Energy

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-126

  Pinon, Grégory ^a   Mycek, Paul ^a,b   Germain, Grégory ^b   Rivoalen, Elie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rouen   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic; Marine current turbine; Numerical computations; Power and thrust coefficients; Wake

Indexed keywords

HORIZONTAL AXIS; LAGRANGIAN FRAMES; LAGRANGIAN METHODS; MARINE CURRENT TURBINES; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PARTICLE METHODS; THRUST COEFFICIENTS; VORTEX METHODS;

HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKES;

TURBINES;

DISTURBANCE; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOFTWARE; THRUST; TURBINE; VORTEX; VORTICITY; WAKE;

EID: 84860884749     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.03.037     Document Type: Article

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