Comparison of a RANS blade element model for tidal turbine arrays with laboratory scale measurements of wake velocity and rotor thrust

Engineering

• Rotors 100%
• Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes 100%
• Scale Measurement 100%
• Element Model 100%
• Blade Element 100%
• Streamwise 11%
• Turbulent Kinetic Energy 11%
• Element Method 11%
• Computational Fluid Dynamics 5%
• Turbulent Flow 5%
• Shallower 5%
• Axisymmetric 5%
• Downstream Distance 5%
• Reynolds' Number 5%
• Turbulence Intensity 5%
• Dissipation Rate 5%
• Commercial Software 5%
• Experimental Value 5%
• Superposition 5%
• Horizontal Axis 5%
• Turbulent Kinetic Dissipation 5%
• Flow Speed 5%
• Rotor Position 5%
• Energy Rate 5%
• Wake Flow 5%
• Rotor Plane 5%
• Streamwise Force 5%
• Rotor Radius 5%
• Steady Flow 5%