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Sen Deng, Weiqiang Zhao, Tianbao Huang, Ming Xia and Zhengwei Wang
Kaplan turbines are generally used in working conditions with a high flow and low head. These are a type of axial-flow hydro turbine that can adjust the opening of the guide vanes and blades simultaneously in order to achieve higher efficiency under a wi...
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Razvan Nicoara, Daniel Crunteanu and Valeriu Vilag
As a main component of most gas-turbine engines, the axial flow turbines have been in a process of continuous improvement, reaching high efficiencies and reliability. A well-known drawback of these systems is the rapid decrease in performance when operat...
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Yi Wang, Bin Guo, Fengmei Jing and Yunlei Mei
In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the influence of winglets on the hydrodynamic performance and flow field characteristics of tidal current energy turbines, two different shapes of winglets are designed, and numerical simulation resu...
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Razvan Edmond Nicoara, Daniel Eugeniu Crunteanu and Valeriu Alexandru Vilag
Extensively used in modern gas turbine engines in various applications, ranging from aerospace, marine and terrestrial propulsion to power generation and gas pumping, the axial flow turbines have been continuously updated and are now capable of high perf...
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Jian-Tao Wang, Xiang-Hong Liu, Qing Sun and Yu-Wei Li
Upon the higher requirement on high-performance structures of large-scale supporting structures of offshore wind turbines, the systematic analysis on the compressive-flexural behavior and ultimate bearing capacity of tapered concrete-filled double skin s...
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Dennis Beier, Anja Schnepf, Sean Van Steel, Naiquan Ye and Muk Chen Ong
The use of floating offshore wind farms for electrical energy supply is expected to rise significantly over the coming years. Suspended inter-array power cables are a new design to connect floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) with shorter cable length...
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Zhaoyong Mao, Tianqi Zhang, Guangyong Yang and Wenlong Tian
Gurney flaps can enhance the hydrodynamic efficiency of airfoils, and they are currently used in several applications, including racing cars and wind turbines. However, there is a lack of studies in the literature on the application of Gurney flaps on th...
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Yuanxing Zhao, Xuan Gong, Jianwen Wang, Liru Zhang and Yefei Bai
The dynamic yaw significantly affects the aerodynamic load distribution of wind turbines, and the aerodynamic load is one of the main influencing factors of wind turbine structural stress variation. Taking the NACA4415 horizontal axis wind turbine design...
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Yumin Liu, Patrick Hendrick, Zhengping Zou and Frank Buysschaert
Empirical correlations are still fundamental in the modern design paradigm of axial turbines. Among these, the prominent Ainley and Mathieson correlation (Ainley D. and Mathieson G., 1951, ?A Method of Performance Estimation for Axial-Flow Turbines,? ARC...
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Yanzhao Wu, Xiaohang Wang, Xiaolong Yang, Junfeng Ding, Di Zhu, Ran Tao, Huanmao Wang and Ruofu Xiao
Tubular turbine is a type of turbine with low-head. Due to the fact that the runner of a tubular turbine is of axial-flow type, there will be a certain width of blade tip between the blade and the chamber. In order to explore the influence of tip clearan...
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