A large-eddy simulation study of wake propagation and power production in an array of tidal-current turbines

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1985, 2013, Pages

  Churchfield, Matthew J ^a   Li, Ye ^a   Moriarty, Patrick J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Computational fluid dynamics; Large eddy simulation; Tidal; Turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WAKES;

ARRAY; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; COUNTER ROTATING; DENSITY STRATIFICATION; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NON-STAGGERED; POWER PRODUCTION; ROW SPACING; TIDAL; TIDAL TURBINES; TOTAL POWER; TURBULENT STRUCTURES; VERTICAL SHEAR; WAKE PROPAGATION; WAKE ROTATION; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

TURBINES;

EID: 84874159116     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0421     Document Type: Article

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