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Brian G. Sanderson, Richard H. Karsten and Daniel J. Hasselman
An area has been designated for demonstrating the utility of marine hydrokinetic turbines in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy. Marine renewable energy may be useful for the transition from carbon-based energy sources, but there is concern for the safety of fi...
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Brian G. Sanderson, Richard H. Karsten, Cameron C. Solda, David C. Hardie and Daniel J. Hasselman
Tidal stream energy is a renewable energy resource that might be developed to offset carbon emissions. A tidal energy demonstration (TED) area has been designated in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, for testing and installing marine hydrokinetic (MHK) turbin...
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Kiran Siddappaji and Mark G. Turner
Designing blades for efficient energy transfer by turning the flow and angular momentum change is both an art and iterative multidisciplinary engineering process. A robust parametric design tool with few inputs to create 3D blades for turbomachinery and ...
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Minh N. Doan, Takuya Kawata and Shinnosuke Obi
Cross-flow hydrokinetic turbines have sparked interest among fluid dynamicists for their potential for power enhancement in paired configuration. Following the first part of a laboratory-scaled turbine wake measurement project, this second part presents ...
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Minh N. Doan, Yuriko Kai, Takuya Kawata and Shinnosuke Obi
Recent developments in marine hydrokinetic (MHK) technology have put the cross-flow (often vertical-axis) turbines at the forefront. MHK devices offer alternative solutions for clean marine energy generation as a replacement for traditional hydraulic tur...
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Dimitra Anevlavi and Kostas Belibassakis
Much work has been done over the past years to obtain a better understanding, predict and alleviate the effects of cavitation on the performance of lifting surfaces for hydrokinetic turbines and marine propellers. Lifting-surface sheet cavitation, when a...
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Josias da Silva Cruz, Claudio José Cavalcante Blanco, Antônio César Pinho Brasil Junior
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The Brazilian hydrological information network does not provide data series of daily velocities. The river velocities are important for the study of hydrokinetic potential. Therefore, the work proposes a model called flow-velocity that estimates the aver...
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Minh N. Doan, Yuriko Kai and Shinnosuke Obi
This article proposes an experimental apparatus design to measure the power of a cross-flow marine hydrokinetic turbine system operating in a laboratory water tunnel. Data, from one Hall sensor output signal, was processed to capture the three types of t...
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Jorel Flambard, Yassine Amirat, Gilles Feld, Mohamed Benbouzid and Nicolas Ruiz
This paper presents a review of the stream current power sector, with a distinction made between the marine (MCP) and the river/estuary current power (RECP). Although scientific literature about MCP is actually well defined, that about RECP seems small, ...
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Panagiotis E. Koutsogiannakis, Evangelos S. Filippas and Kostas A. Belibassakis
A biomimetic semi-activated oscillating-foil device with multiple foils in a parallel configuration is studied for the extraction of marine renewable energy. For the present investigation, an unsteady boundary element method (BEM) is used for the simulat...
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