Preliminary Design and Performance Analysis of Ducted Tidal Turbine

Computational Analysis of Ducted Turbine Performance

This paper studies the effects of viscous loss, flow separation and base pressure for ducted turbine designs using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Analytical model coefficients for inlet and diffuser efficiency and base pressure coefficient parameterize these effects and have been identified from CFD results. General trends are: the inlet efficiency is nearly unity for the simula...

Design and Optimization of Tidal turbine Airfoil

Ducted Turbine Blade Optimization Using Numerical Simulation

This paper presents a combined blade element (BE), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method for performance analysis and optimization of ducted turbines. The model is similar to standard blade element momentum theory, except that CFD replaces the momentum equation for determining the induction factors. This eliminates many assumptions used in applying the typical blade element momentum (BEM) t...

Design and testing of a contra-rotating tidal current turbine

A contra-rotating marine current turbine has a number of attractive features: near-zero reactive torque on the support structure, near-zero swirl in the wake, and high relative interrotor rotational speeds. Modified blade element modelling theory has been used to design and predict the characteristics of such a turbine, and a model turbine and test rig have been constructed. Tests in a towing t...

Blade Design and Performance Analysis of Wind Turbine

This paper reviews the design optimization of wind turbine blades through investigating the design methods and analyzing the performance of the blades. The current research work in this area include wind turbine blade geometric design and optimization, aerodynamics analysis, wind turbine blade structural design and dynamics analysis. Blade geometric design addresses the design parameters, inclu...