...Spyros A. Kinnas; Wei Xu; Yi-Hsiang Yu; Lei He A design method based on a lifting line model is developed to determine the optimum radial circulation distribution on a turbine blade, which will produce the maximum output power for a given tip speed ratio and a given number of blades. The resulting...

...J. Baltazar; J. A. C. Falcão de Campos A low order potential based panel code is used to analyze the flow around the blades of a horizontal axis marine current turbine. An empirical vortex model is assumed for the turbine wake, which includes the variation of pitch of the helicoidal vortices...

... and a Towing Tank,” Renewable Energy, 32, pp. 407–426 ). Additional numerical results are shown for the same turbine, but scaled up to 20 m in diameter, operating in a tidal boundary layer flow with a water depth of 30 m. The results show that transient cavitation will develop near the blade tip when...

... to improve the understanding of this interaction and to develop numerical models of it, a model podded propulsor was used in “Puller” mode, and ice loads were measured on its instrumented blade and propeller shaft. The results of the experiments conducted to simulate the interactions (milling...

..., are performed to obtain insight into the fundamental aspects of a mixing tank. The impeller-induced flow at the blade tip radius is modeled by using the sliding mesh. The simulations are four-way coupled, which implies that both solid–liquid and solid–solid interactions are taken into account. By employing...