Development and verification of a computational fluid dynamics model of a horizontal-axis tidal current turbine

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 711-720

  Lawson, Michael J ^a   Li, Ye ^a   Sale, Danny C ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE GEOMETRY; BLADE-ELEMENT MOMENTUM METHODS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; GENETIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; GRID RESOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPERATING CONDITION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; STEADY AND TRANSIENT; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIME STEP; TIME-DEPENDENT FLOW; TRANSIENT SIMULATION; TURBINE BLADE;

ALGORITHMS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DYNAMICS; GRID COMPUTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84862921113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2011-49863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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