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Numerical simulation of a new type of cross flow tidal turbine using OpenFOAM - Part II: Investigation of turbine-to-turbine interaction

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dc.creator Gebreslassie, Mulualem G.
dc.creator Tabor, Gavin
dc.creator Belmont, M.R.
dc.date 2013-06-04T15:47:17Z
dc.date 2013
dc.date 2013-06-04T15:47:17Z
dc.identifier Vol. 50, pp. 1005 - 1013
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.renene.2012.08.064
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9844
dc.identifier 0960-1481
dc.identifier Renewable Energy
dc.description Copyright © 2013 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Renewable Energy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Renewable Energy, Volume 50 (2013), DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.08.064
dc.description Prediction of turbine-to-turbine interaction represents a significant challenge in determining the optimized power output from a tidal stream farm, and this is an active research area. This paper presents a detailed work which examines the influence of surrounding turbines on the performance of a base case (isolated turbine). The study was conducted using a new CFD based, Immersed Body Force (IBF) model, which was validated in the first paper, and an open source CFD software package OpenFOAM was used for the simulations. The influence of the surrounding turbines was investigated using randomly chosen initial lateral and longitudinal spacing among the turbines. The initial spacing was then varied to obtain four configurations to examine the relative effect that positioning can have on the performance of the base turbine.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2012.08.064
dc.subject IBF model
dc.subject LES
dc.subject Wake interaction
dc.subject Spacing
dc.title Numerical simulation of a new type of cross flow tidal turbine using OpenFOAM - Part II: Investigation of turbine-to-turbine interaction
dc.type Article


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